Quotes About Insight

Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;

determining the essence of different points of view (what Lyndon Johnson called "listening")

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting ... But that's not all people laugh at. Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there. He thought. I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because its the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. But find me something that makes you laugh, a joke, anything--but something that gave you a belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't wrongness somewhere and whether you would laugh if the wrongness wasn't there.

one of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn—when they do, which isn't often—on their own, the hard way.

Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it.

Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You

He was looking that way now and the projected print moved along the screen, but he was not really reading but simply avoiding the eyes of his boss across the table. Mrs. Douglas did not read newspapers; she had other ways of finding out what she needed to know.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.

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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.

What was "grokking"? He had been using the word for a week—and he didn't grok it.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." —L. Sprague de Camp

Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.