Insight Development Quotes

The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

It takes a long time for words to become thought.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.