Quotes About Insight

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

much of anything. But put a series together and patterns emerged. Some were obvious: haircuts, weight gained or lost, fashion trends. Others required

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

He thought of getting out of bed but did not get out of bed. Why? What for? Everyone else seemed to know. Like there had been a meeting no one had told him about, where a secret was shared. Those who knew the secret did not wonder why they should get out of bed. He

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To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it. Brody poured drinks in crystal tumblers.

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.