Quotes About Insight

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we find them, and the way we lose them.

The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way.

But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

Reading is precisely a conversation with men who are both wiser and more interesting than those we might have occasion to meet ourselves. –

true knowledge is the ability to discern the end in the beginning, to understand the end result of present action.

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

Focus on our ignorance." She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.

satellite view. "They could

A wise man -- a cop named Capslock -- once observed that he'd never seen a murder with a large sum of money attached to it, in which the money wasn't important. On the other hand, Virgil hadn't ever seen a murder that involved an intense sexuality in which sexuality wasn't involved.

Dunno, but my gut says we're onto something, and my gut doesn't lie," Shrake said. "There was that time with that Rudolph chick," Jenkins suggested. "That's because my dick overruled my gut, but my gut was telling me the truth," Shrake said. "What can I tell you?

The more he worked around the PPPI, the more he got the feeling that he was onto something. People were lying to him, misdirecting him. He couldn't exactly put a finger on why he thought that, but he'd learned the hard way not to ignore even unsupported intuition.

We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don't stir in a lot of hope, we don't turn blind eyes.

I've been told, by somebody who knows these things, that Don knows a lot about the, mmm, tactical maneuverings of the party, and everybody involved in these things.

in to Reader's Digest.

Stupidity is the unwillingness to appreciate the consequences of your actions.

And also because I know if I've figured it out, someone else has too, because there's always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics.

On the sixth day, Jared and the rest of the 8th finally figured out what that sex thing was all about. On the seventh day, and as a direct consequence of the sixth day, they rested.

Well, 'explode' maybe isn't the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting.

One does not need visions when one has data.

I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.