Quotes About Insight

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? . . . Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. —Bram Stoker, Dracula

Andrew Roberts

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68

Napoleón dijo en una ocasión que «para entender a un hombre hay que observar cómo era el mundo a sus veinte años».

Above all, he was the first significant political figure to spot the twin totalitarian dangers of Communism and Nazism, and to point out the best ways of dealing with both.

the qualities desirable in a politician, Churchill said, 'The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year Ã¢â'¬â€œ and . . . to explain why it didn't happen.

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,' she told him, 'and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Sometimes the world's most brilliant ideas don't work. Doesn't make them any less insightful.

Leading indicators give you one way to look inside the black box by showing you in advance what the future might look like. And because they give you time to take corrective action, they make it possible for you to avoid problems.

Of course, you can't spend all of your time listening to random inputs. But you should be open to them. As you keep doing it, you will develop a feel for whose views are apt to contain gems of information and a sense of who will take advantage of your openness to clutter you with noise. Over time, then, you can adjust your receptivity accordingly.

People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early

And that was my day. You know what I mean.

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

chemist Albert Szent-Györgyi said: "Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.

Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!

Anyone,' Avallac'h wiped his hands on a rag, 'can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.