Insight Quotes

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "The greatest scholars are not the wisest men" "Literature is news that stays news." "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience" "Listen deep enough, you always hear something" "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook." "Nobody is gonna pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself" "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth." "The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people." "Even the wise cannot see all ends " "You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions" "The older the question, the older the answer" "People often claim to hunger for truth but seldom like the taste when it's served up" "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "Reflective thinking turns experience into insight " "Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." "Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is knowledge we have lost in information?" "When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting."