Quotes About Insight

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

They wouldn't know how to see what he put in front of their eyes.

She lies awake at night, staring upward, remembering being right next to the only discovery that matters. Life was whispering instructions to her, and she failed to write them down.

Then he woke up from the dream of humankind.

Do not invent anything; simply discover it.

But it's the same basic problem: What keeps us from seeing the obvious? Douglas puts his hand to the brass bull's horn. And? What does? Mostly other people.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.

When her eyes open again, truths rush into her head. Like Enlightenment, but without the glow.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at.

palindrome: La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural.

Once Ray starts a book, he force-marches through to its conclusion, however hard the slog. Dorothy doesn't mind skipping the author's philosophies to get to those moments when one character, often the most surprising, reaches down inside herself and is better than her nature allows.

he reads the same paragraph a dozen times; the words turn into twirling things, like winged seeds spinning in the air.

It's a bang on the head that births up whole sciences.

People want a better story than they get." The wild-haired sadhu leans forward so fast he almost pitches out of his wheelchair. "Yes! And what do all good stories do?" There are no takers. Neelay holds up his arms and extends his palms in the oddest gesture. In another moment, leaves will grow from his fingers. Birds will come and nest in them. "They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren't.

once you enumerate them all, once you sample seven billion examples from each of seven billion humans and fit them together in their trillion trillion contexts, all things begin to come clear.

If you ask a person, "What were you thinking?" you may get an answer that is richer and more revealing of the human condition than any stream of thoughts a novelist could invent.

the highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. Robert Oppenheimer It

Bohr had learned to be alert for bright students who were not afraid to argue.

In scientific work, creative thinking demands seeing things not seen previously, or in ways not previously imagined; and this necessitates jumping off from "normal" positions, and taking risks by departing from reality.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. Robert Oppenheimer

you are often most gifted to heal others precisely where you yourself were wounded, or wounded others.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.