Quotes About Insight

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Truth that peepsOver the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

Discernment is having the eyes to see, and the ears to hear - and the ability to feel the emotional energy that is Truth.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!

Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

creative output depends on creative input.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

When you are working on a problem, you sometimes get so close to it that you can't see all the options. You miss elegant solutions because the creative part of your mind is suppressed by the intensity of your focus. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to go home, eat dinner, watch TV, go to bed, and then wake up the next morning and take a shower.

By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away.

the question… as always, the question is how to look at the sun without being blinded.

The easiest kind of prophecy," he said, "is the kind that predicts things that have already happened.