Quotes About Insight

You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there's more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

The answers make us wise, but the questions make us human.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

ANYONE WHO HAS PREJUDICES and whose perceptions are colored by self-interest will never see the truth in any area in which his bias operates. Only when his bias is removed will he be able to understand the truth. —RABBI ELIYAHU DESSLER (1892–1953)

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is interesting. But what they hide is vital.

Know thy enemy," a quote he lifted from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

It almost feels like I've suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn't.

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

If there was a lesson to be taken from history, it was that men lived but never learned from

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin.

Perhaps there was some loop or circuit missing from the brains of people like Garlin, some absent process that prevented them from seeing themselves from outside their own skin, in all their ludicrousness. But to a degree, Sparver reflected, it must also be absent from those they swept up into their movements.

I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.

I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.