Limited Insight Quotes

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

[M]any believed but few knew very much.

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

History shows you prospects by starlight, or at best by the waning moon.

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life in a humorous way, the smaller the straw is that you're looking at the map of life. You're not looking at the whole picture. You can't see the whole topography without it, and it can help you to make better choices.

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

Maybe I see things too naively at times.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.