Quotes About Insight

Sometimes when you see too much, you miss a lot.

Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions

So much more aware, so much less perceptive. An automaton could do better.

Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions can be just as blinding.

when a lemur makes a human, it doesn't matter how many lemur chains and lemur rules and lemur constraints she imposes. She's simply, computationally incapable of seeing all the angles that her smarter creation can take in at a glance.

Semmelweis reflex. They

I HAVE NEVER FOR ONE INSTANT SEEN CLEARLY WITHIN MYSELF. HOW THEN WOULD YOU HAVE ME JUDGE THE DEEDS OF OTHERS? —MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Seguid a los menos, y no al vulgo" (Petrarca)

Büyük bir hastal?k geçirmeyenler, her?eyi anlad?klar?n? iddia edemezler.

Ah efendim, dedi, bizi bizden daha iyi biliyorlar; Mesnevi'yi de, Rubiyat'? da, Gazali'yi de, Farabi'yi de bizden daha çok okuyorlar; bizden daha çok takdir ediyorlar; bizim bizden daha büyük dü?man?m?z yoktur efendim, yoktur.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

Things are not always what they seem; outward form deceives many; rare is the mind that discerns what is carefully concealed within.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

In learning we teach and in teaching we learn.

Insight is rarer, and infinitely more precious. A strong insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand reasons to act and make something happen. That, more than anything, should be your reason to fight and persevere for your own insight moment. When you are armed with a powerful insight, the ideas never stop flowing.

To learn, you must understand what you do not know. It is not enough to know you do not understand.

Know what happened, wonder what happened or ignore what happened and i would not want to be 2 or 3

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

Ancient people, we don't just need to find out what things they made, how they lived. We need to see through their eyes, sense what they sensed… aware that their senses would have been much sharper than ours… accepting that they might well have been aware of things we no longer perceive.

Then the true essence of the place came to him,

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.