Quotes About Insight

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.

You can not know any better and still know you don't like something" -Ruby

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

It is difficult for the average person to achieve an historical perspective in which progress shall have been reduced to its proper dimensions.

When a body's this old, she can claim to be as wise as she wants.

We all love to discover for ourselves the causes of problems.  When we do discover for ourselves our energy really moves inside us.  When we are told the answers we might learn a little, but it is nothing like the magic of discovering things through our own questions.

You can learn too much from experience.  A cat that sits on a hot stove will not sit on a hot stove again but unfortunately the cat will not sit on a cold one either."  - Mark Twain

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

History is a vast early warning system.

The way a book is read- which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

He has repeatedly shown that by explaining neurological "oddities," he can shed light on the functioning of normal brains. "I hate crowds in science," he tells me. He doesn't fancy large scientific meetings either. "I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don't polish the brass on the bandwagon." Beginning

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

You cannot tell a man's intention by looking at his forehead, you must look through it to the inside of his head; and no judge and jury are capable of looking through the skull of a man who has done nothing but talk to see what goes on inside." And

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Literature is humanity talking to itself.