Quotes About Insight

New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience.

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir

I do not believe," said Wilson, "that any man can lead who does not act … under the impulse of a profound sympathy with those whom he leads—a sympathy which is insight—an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect.

I know that my life on boats has been about this: not the sailing or the sea so much as learning about self. And almost every boat I have had has taught me something.

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.

The biggest advances are not made by being a great teacher; they are made by being a great student.

We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.

I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind)

my books only know the minds of their authors.

If you have an understanding and cannot express it, then your understanding is not yet complete.

One can almost apply Gabriel Marcel's famous insight: life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

How much philosophers would learn, if they would consent to read the poets!

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.

De waarheid is een gecorrigeerde vergissing.

Avouer qu'on s'était trompé, c'est rendre le plus éclatant hommage à la perspicacité de son esprit.

The individual is not the sum of his common impressions but of his unusual ones.

Preguntó el señor Mifroid, mientras limpiaba meticulosamente los cristales de su binóculo, ya que el comisario era míope, como les suele ocurrir a los mejores ojos del mundo.

Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.

So you know that the RIGHT kind of love ... the kind that's REAL, that SACRIFICES ... that kind of love doesn't BLIND you. It actually helps you SEE.

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.

the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of reliable information, gained by chance or insight, from one set of men to their successors.