Quotes About Insight

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious. —MARCUS AURELIUS

I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If

What is the one asset, the one benefit you have today over yesterday? The answer, of course, is experience.

success leaves clues. People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else does.

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If you want to help somebody, you won't access this kind of leverage by making them wrong or pointing out that they're inconsistent, but rather by asking them questions that cause them to realize for themselves their inconsistencies.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

When I talked with David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, he told me that "unconventional wisdom is the only way you can succeed." Follow the herd, and you don't have a chance.

The prevailing thought is usually the wrong thought.

Remember: Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. —WARREN BUFFETT

Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgment!

There's something in her that's looking for the basic reality of a given situation.

The art of the police consists in not seeing what there is no use seeing.' Napoleon Bonaparte

It is seldom that we know anything accurately on any subject that we have not made matter of careful study, said Mr. Monk, and very often do not do so even then. We are very apt to think that we men and women understand one another; but most probably you know nothing even of the modes of thought of the man who lives next door to you.

There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.

There are some people, if you can only get to learn the length of their feet, you can always fit them with shoes afterwards.

After all, then, she was not a clever woman,—not more clever than other women around her! 

Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.

No one ever on seeing Mr Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.

You guess. You're always a-guessing. And because you know how to guess, they pays you for guessing. But guessing ain't knowing. You don't know; — nor yet don't I.

Men may often do much without knowing that they do anything, and such probably had been the case with Reginald Morton during the journey from Dillsborough to Cheltenham.

Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?" said Carry.

There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;