Quotes About Insight

These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present. The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries

I libri buoni sono sempre anche veritieri, perfino quando raccontano vicende che non sono mai successe e non succederanno. Sono veri in un altro senso.

la idea de anunciar la poesía de Shakespeare mil años antes de su nacimiento carece de sentido. Pues el autor podía no haber nacido, haber fallecido en la infancia, haber vivido de otra manera y, por tanto, escribir de otra forma; sin embargo, el habla inglesa preveía la existencia misma de la poesía inglesa.

From a chemical analysis of the ink with which a letter is written to us, we will never deduce the intellectual attributes of the writer.

We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors.

La ignorancia de la propia ignorancia acompaña firmemente al conocimiento.

Cada vez hay más científicos y menos sabios.

And, as Albert Einstein pointed out, it is impossible to solve problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

We don't need other worlds, we need mirrors.

You know, Michael, it's not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass.

In economia bisogna essere furbi e capire quali siano i desideri degli altri, ma soprattutto insegnare agli altri che desideri devono avere.

Perché le idee (sventagliata) sono come le tette; se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono sempre gonfiare (risate).

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Sometimes, a different way of representing information is the key to understanding something as complicated as the subatomic world.

Information is cheap; understanding is expensive.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. —Marcel Proust

He has no interest in pursuing an abstract argument to demonstrate a purely theoretical truth. His practical reason is ethical. Its first principle could be stated thus: Do no evil, Take up what is good, Purify the mind— This is the teaching of buddhas.11 In seeing conditioned arising as a "ground," Gotama implies that insight into conditionality provides "grounds" on which to act.

I am not a man who enjoys such insights into his own character.

If the answer is not the one you want, maybe you're not asking the right question.

For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

You see things. You keep quiet about them. You understand.

I don't know if it is important to tell you all this, but at the time, it felt like a "breakthrough".

You see things, you keep quiet about them and you understand.

I don't know why I wrote a lot of this down for you to read.