Quotes About Insight

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning." A verse from Ecclesiastes.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

You cannot be sure that you are right, unless you understand the arguments against your view better than your opponents do. by Milton Friedman (p.10)

Pero cuando se habla, no se mira. Los charlatanes nunca ven nada.

Bog o tebi nema pojma; on niti vidi tvoje namere, niti tvoje misli, ni tvoja dela. To što ti je an?eo došao u san i buncao, zna?i samo da nije imao gde da preno?i, a napolju je verovatno padala kiša. A što je kratko ostao, to je po svoj prilici jer mu je u tvome snu suviše smrdelo. Operi svoje snove drugi put...

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

We're always looking, but we never really see.

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

Às vezes, a leitura de um livro desvela uma pessoa.

Na minha idade, a única vantagem é saber que não vou aturar por muito tempo a estupidez humana.

Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.

It was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions.

Yoseb read three or four papers to glean some truth from the gaps and overlaps.

You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't. Now, I'm telling you something valuable. I'm telling you something so you can save your sons' lives.

You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't.

Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge - it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you.

Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference.

L'éducation nous apprend les règles de la vie. L'expérience nous apprend les exceptions.

Does form result from seeing unform repeatedly?

We rate experiences as good or bad;even when its the latter, we learn from them.Therefore all experiences are good.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

depression is something that I've come to accept from my creative community and I realize that's probably alien to most people. I don't know why the funniest people I know are also depressed.