Quotes About Insight

H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!

Imagínate un mundo en el que sólo hay luz. Si nunca has experimentado la oscuridad, ¿cómo podrías comprender y apreciar la luz? Es el contraste entre luz y oscuridad lo que lleva a un conocimiento más profundo.

Only by courageously embracing darkness can we understand and fully appreciate the light.

old Google Glass monitored what people watched; now Google Everywhere monitors what they think. Although Glass came to know Scoble better than even his spouse, Everywhere knows him better than he knows himself.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

No one manages until he or she has "walked in the shoes" of those being managed.

One layer off from the deepest is a cartoon.

Top management is supposed to be a tree full of owls...hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

a preliminary sketch. Your experience tells you that. But

Without the "seer," there are no "objects". Seeing and creating are one and the same process

understanding the ultimate source of your suffering doesn't, by itself, help very much.

According to Buddhist philosophy, both the problems we call therapeutic and the problems we call spiritual are a product of not seeing things clearly. What's more, in both cases this failure to see things clearly is in part a product of being misled by feelings. And the first step toward seeing through these feelings is seeing them in the first place—becoming aware of how pervasively and subtly feelings influence our thought and behavior.

I would be approaching the truth.

The mindfulness meditation I've done has been within a particular school of meditation known as Vipassana (pronounced vih PAW suh nuh). Vipassana is an ancient word that denotes clear vision and is usually translated as "insight.

clearest vision possible.