Insightful Analysis Quotes

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again, that's helped me see things that other people for whatever reason have not seen. That's that most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. I guess it could be stated that most people only hear the music, not the lyrics of human events.

Less opinion, more perspective.

Because I think I am pretty left-brained - more than I gave myself credit for - I think I've managed to really dissect emotions. At least my own. And I've been able to understand what they do, how they do it, and when.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

Success is a refined study of the obvious

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

If I am at home I'll put 'Tipping Point' on and will always learn something from it.

I like Ben Stein. I think he's funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.

I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.