Quotes About Insight

Serce ma swoje racje, o których nic nie wie rozum - Pascal

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes.

In alcuni casi cruciali, però, il disgusto è l'espressione emotiva di una saggezza profonda, cui la ragione non è in grado di dar voce.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the mirror of literature?

It's clear.

A combination of many stupidities can end up being a worthy man if he learns from his stupidities.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.

In particular, what seems special about humans is our desire and ability to understand what other people think and feel. Called "theory of mind," or "ToM," this ability gives humans a remarkable power to make sense of other people's past behavior and to predict how their behavior will unfold given their present or future circumstances.

As Lerner had predicted, the observers had a need to understand the situation in terms of cause and effect.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.

It is one thing to suspect that archers and astronomers, chemists and marketers, encounter the same error law; it is another to discover the specific form of that law.

Our assessment of the world would be quite different if all our judgments could be insulated from expectation and based only on relevant data.           A

After the event, of course, a signal is always crystal clear; we can now see what disaster it was signaling…. But before the event it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings."6

As Steve Jobs said, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

The "floater" misses reality; the concrete-bound person misses understanding.

He was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness while everyone else was still asleep. —Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Visionaries are those in the field of art and science who recognize novel patterns. They see beauty before the rest of us do.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.