Quotes About Insight

It's difficult for analysts to get better at predicting when they don't know if their past predictions were ever any good.30

Knowledge never guarantees perfect decisions, but it does reduce uncertainty, which makes better decisions more likely.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

People," he said. "They can't be underestimated.

Finding out that you are wrong is even more valuable than being right, because you are learning.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, in its original French. It read: "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Frankly, I think that after we die, we have this wide understanding of what's real. And we'll probably say, 'Ah, so that's what it was all about.' Fred Rogers

Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image.

He was starting to learn that you didn't really know what it meant unless you felt the broken glass of worry that went with it.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past.

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

People experience books so very differently.

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

He was like Tennessee Williams, shooting three bull's-eyes in a row, all with his blind eye.

I wish I could say that over the years I've gained some insight into the intelligence of my worms, but the most I've seen them do is act out of instinct or hunger, moving up to higher ground in the bin if water pools in the bottom, or gravitating towards food they like and away from food they don't. If they have an intellect, I don't suppose I've provided much to stimulate it.

You've really helped him a lot." Samsara shrugged. "It's mostly Raz's insight. I just nudge him a little occasionally." "Which is what a good teacher does.

Innocence may not be all it's cracked up to be.

One needs to be briefed before one talks to writers