Quotes About Insight

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

how thoughtful is thoughtful enough.... how much thinking does thinking over ...

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!

whats intelegnece without wisdom

You've got your answer then, haven't you?' Lydia nods. She has. She knew it all along. But sometimes it takes an artificially intelligent simulation of a long dead Beatle to put things in perspective.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

Every brand new is a new lesson.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.

Read wisely for a good book is a faithful friend.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity; and thrill; in waking; to find they have been upon the verge of the great secret.

Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.