Quotes About Insight

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

When your opponent is making a mistake, do nothing to interfere.

Knowledge is only potential power.

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Experience, after all, is a trustworthier friend than intuition.

Novels are longer than life.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

I had to get slow and dumb (not take anything for granted) and watch and see how everything connects, how you contact your thoughts and lay them down on paper.

Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don't have the constraints of conscious logic.

It is good to pay attention to our dreams. For a period of a few weeks, write them down each morning. You don't have to do anything else. Just write them down. They have their own magic and will bleed into your waking life. While

Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

Naked Lunch, after the novel by William Burroughs—"a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

Writing is the act of discovery.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Always there is something more to know

Writers step into their subject's shoes so readers can walk in them.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.