Quotes About Insight

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom." - Benjamin Franklin.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too

In short, the emerging conversation is in a unique place to acknowledge the long-forgotten insight that God hides in God's visibility, realizing that revelation embraces concealment at one and the same time as it embraces manifestation and that our various interpretations of revelation will always be provisional, fragile and fragmentary.

Our wisdom . . . consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Sources of Surprise: Make the time to read outside your immediate specialty—if necessary, taking time from more "active" tasks. Stick bookmarks in promising places, then graze the marked passages later. Allow yourself to become enthralled once in a while.

if you wanted to see the future you could not go to conventional sources of information.

the advantage of some ignorance; it leaves some room for creativity. But sometimes it feels like ignorance is endemic in this industry-that people are unaware of things and wheels are constantly being reinvented with pointy corners.

recognize the value of seeking out active users and showing them works in progress to develop opportunities and ideas and to see how they react.

When you hold the world in your palm and inspect it only from a bird's-eye view, you tend to become arrogant— you do not realize that things get blurred when seen from an enormous distance," Yunus wrote.

Mountain biking was an enormous idea and market waiting to be discovered. Anyone learning from those early adopters would have seen it coming.

Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing.

If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

Books that would have helped us understand our past, without which we are condemned to live in ignorance

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt.

Nobody gets a good view of a system from the inside, no matter who they are. The view's distorted.

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological—but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing. You can't imagine such a being, can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on.

NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES. —Henry David Thoreau

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

Do you want to know what consciousness is for? Do you want to know the only real purpose it serves? Training wheels. You can't see both aspects of the Necker cube at once, so it lets you focus on one and dismiss the other. That's a pretty half asses way to parse reality. You're always better off looking at more than one side of anything. Go on try. We focus. It's the next logical step. Oh, but you can't. There's something in the way. And it's fighting back

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD. —Aldous Huxley