Quotes About Insight

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.

How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

We Ignore the Complexity of Human Motivations

If you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.

Bertrand Russell once said, "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty. . . .

Myth: When you have a lot of uncertainty, you need a lot of data to tell you something useful. Fact: If you have a lot of uncertainty now, you don't need much data to reduce uncertainty significantly. When you have a lot of certainty already, then you need a lot of data to reduce uncertainty significantly. In other words—if you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.

Instead of being overwhelmed by the apparent uncertainty in such a problem, start to ask what things about it you do know.

It seems that to have a truly profound revelation, you almost always have to look at something other than what you have been looking at in the past. Being able to compute the value of information has caused organizations to look at completely different things—and doing so has frequently resulted in a surprise that changed the direction of a major decision.

The first 100 samples reduce uncertainty much more than the second 100. In fact, even the first 10 samples tell you a lot more than the next 10. The initial state of uncertainty tells you a lot about how to measure it.

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate. TAKEAWAY

your readings are the trees where your fallen leaves would come from. Mind mulch. Cognitive compost.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not know the truth.

Common sense needs to be more common.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Your experience is your greatest teacher

Knowledge is pain and that is why it hurts to know.

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

I think better when Im not sober.

You be up on everything, other hoes aint ever on it.