Quotes About Insight

I knew perfectly well what it was about.

Over time I would become more sympathetic to the behavioral view.

but there's more to it than has been portrayed.

We were always looking for people who could bring knowledge of community banking to the Board,

I was puzzled, but shortly thereafter learned the reason.

After all, who knows more about the local economy than a community banker?

But his analytical skills, particularly his ability to detect weaknesses in an argument, would make everyone around him better and lead to better policy.

Both had valid points.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

Nick Denton's core insight: in the newspaper era, the best stories were sometimes the ones reporters told one another in bars, rather than the ones they printed.

All history is contemporary history.

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

Tengo un instinto…! Yo no sabré hacer las cosas, pero las sé juzgar

La experiencia es una llama que no alumbra sino quemando.

Y aunque yo era entonces un chiquillo, recuerdo que pensé lo siguiente: «Un hombre tonto no es capaz de hacer en ningún momento de su vida los disparates que hacen a veces las naciones, dirigidas por centenares de hombres de talento»

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

Los buenos libros son asi, capaces de resumir toda la oscuridad de la existencia en una sola gota de tinta

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.

We cannot learn men from books.

All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish were so adept at doing.

You don't realize how narrow the space you're living in is until someone else steps inside it

What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world.

Conoscersi è il miglior modo per capirsi— capirsi è il solo modo per amarsi (To know each other is the best way to understand each other–—to understand each other is the only way to love each other.)