Quotes About Insight

Sometimes "creativity" is just common sense.

One of the things that price consultants have learned is that what consumers say and what they do are not the same thing.

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. —PROVERBS 18:2

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

invention inevitably followed a four-step sequence: Awareness of an unfulfilled need; Recognition of something contradictory or absent in existing attempts to meet the need, which Usher called an "incomplete pattern"; An all-at-once insight about that pattern; and A process of "critical revision" during which the insight is tested, refined, and perfected.

not being either philosophers17 to understand the reason, or mathematicians enough to calculate the powers and to proportion the parts, very luckily by accident found what they sought for.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it.

Remember, if you don't get the question right, your answer doesn't matter.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Drawings, as it has so often been said, are the most intimate expressions of an artist. They can reveal the very act of creation, a first idea, the first spontaneous stroke. They can tell much about an artist himself—for instance, that van Gogh in the south of France remembered an etching by Rembrandt, or that Picasso reinterpreted a composition by Millet.

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Think without any dishonesty. 2. Forge yourself in the Way. 3. Touch upon all of the arts. 4. Know the Ways of all occupations. 5. Know the advantages and disadvantages of everything. 6. Develop a discerning eye in all matters. 7. Understand what cannot be seen by the eye. 8. Pay attention to even small things. 9. Do not involve yourself with the impractical.

Nansen was asked by Joshu, 'What is the Way?' He replied, 'Your everyday mind is the Way [Heijoshin kore do].

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

He reads much;He is a great observer, and he looksQuite through the deeds of men.

Modest doubt is call'dThe beacon of the wise, the tent that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.