Quotes About Insight

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

Experimental ideas are very often born by chance as a result of fortuitous observations.

Ideas we don't know we have, have us.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.

We can learn to use the fire of our minds to good purpose.

But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Shut your eyes and see.

Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

the goal of a mapping effort isn't to complete an artifact, but to address the challenges the diagrams help discover and understand. Diagrams

Empathy is about seeing the world through someone else's eyes. It's about an implicit sense of what an experience is like, what people value, and what emotions are involved

Similarly, this is what mapping offers: new insight. It starts with an investigation and illustration of the human condition and then works out ways to support people's needs.

if you stay still for long enough, the universe whispers its secrets to you.

From listening comes knowledge; From knowledge comes understanding; From understanding comes wisdom; From wisdom comes well-being.

De ouvir vem o conhecimento; Do conhecimento vem o entendimento; Do entendimento vem a sabedoria; Da sabedoria vem o bem-estar.

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

But sometimes there's a moral rightness in stupidity. Ever hear of a holy fool?

Sometimes it's more painful to know the truth than not to know it." -Han Solo

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.