Quotes About Insight

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.

If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them.

the smartest man in the world

As a general rule, irrational people don't know they are irrational.

Cuando busque la verdad, su mejor opción es buscar una confirmación al menos en dos de las dimensiones que he incluido en la lista.

the accuracy of our opinions is deeply influenced by our ability to imagine alternate explanations for events.

Books change us automatically, just as any experience does.

one of the most common explanations for anything in life is something you didn't imagine.

it helps to see the world as math and not magic.

My main job for the past few decades has been creating Dilbert. Making comics is a process by which you strip out the unnecessary noise from a situation until all that is left is the absurd-yet-true core.

good writing inspires me to write and bad writing provokes me to write.

Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

One of the most common questions writers are asked is Where do you get your ideas? But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

For only to the extent that we empathize do we have the right to speak about a matter.

I've often heard it said, a preacher Might learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

I have spent the day well just looking and looking. It is the same in art as in life. The deeper one penetrates, the broader grows the view.

The highest achievement possible to man is the full consciousness of his own feelings and thoughts, for this gives him the means of knowing intimately the hearts of others.

Even if Man's accustomed to take His small world for the Whole, that's his mistake:

Surrendering himself to the full possession of the spirit which shall speak through him, he receives, also, a portion of the same creative power.