Quotes About Insight

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man." I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.

You cannot know yourself alone, any more than you can see your own face without a mirror.

know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we've become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us.

Knowledge can be acquired systematically, wisdom cannot.

Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.

one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.

You have a judgmental face." "I'm a scientist. I look at everything this way.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're still in that early phase like the internet in the 1990s. Yes, they know space is an industry now. Sure, they may know of someone who is peripherally involved. But they don't realize how big things are going to get.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

My gut says to like him. The rational part of my brain tells me to pay attention to the obvious.

We figure that's their

What are you going to use?" "Common sense?

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

But to paraphrase the Supreme Court's statement about obscenity, when it comes to patterns, I know them when I see them.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding

because it's the questions you don't know to ask