Quotes About Insight

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us.

Vaunted "human intuition" is in reality "pattern recognition.

what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences.

In the end, it's a simple empirical matter: if the algorithms indeed understand what's happening within you better than you understand it, authority will shift to them.

It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time. Today

You cannot experience something if you don't have the necessary sensitivity, and you cannot develop your sensitivity except by undergoing a long string of experiences.

most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?

Companies such as Mindojo are developing interactive algorithms that will not only teach me maths, physics and history, but will simultaneously study me and get to know exactly who I am.

Yet what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences.

At the entrance of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, pilgrims were greeted by the inscription: 'Know thyself!' The implication was that the average person is ignorant of his true self, and is therefore likely to be ignorant of true happiness. Freud would probably concur.*

If some politicians don't understand these questions, or if they constantly talk about the past without being able to formulate a meaningful vision for the future, don't vote for them.

The more we know, the less we can predict

En un mundo inundado de información irrelevante, la claridad es poder.

Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

Doesn't it look as though a genius is actually a person who has figured out a different way to think?

She knew that he knew she knew he knew better.

I don't even look at resumes anymore. I think they're misguided. I talk to them, ask them where they've been, "What's your favorite experience in a restaurant?" Where do they like to eat? Blah blah blah. All that stuff, but I can only really describe my journey with another person if I can connect with them and their passion. Otherwise, I don't care where they've worked. It doesn't matter to me. Really I have to feel it, and then I can teach them anything.

The blindness I mean is blindness that keeps you from seein' the truth.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.