Quotes About Insight

il faut apprendre, par observation et raisonnement, à reconstituer le vrai des choses d'après les apparences

nous n'avons aucune puissance sur les passions tant que nous n'en connaissons pas les vraies causes

If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

We were developing empathy and the ability to be aware of what was happening in the mind of another person. This, we realized, is the key, the fundamental ingredient without which real communication can't happen. Developing empathy and learning to recognize what the other person is thinking are both essential to good communication, and are what this book is about.

Most research, I think, can only suggest, or point toward, an insight of some kind.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Interaction design is not guesswork.

Reading builds character and increases knowledge.

You can know something in your head but not in your heart.

Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees

It is you," Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.

I learn from experience.

Passion is a meta-emotion — an emotion that is felt only after observing other emotions over time.

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

Know what you are talking about.

Employee ideas illustrate the profound understanding of a company's capabilities and customers that only people working on the front-lines can possess.

Wisdom wins where might fails.

We have to tell stories to unriddle the world

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.