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Letter "I" » insight
«The goal is to transform data into information, and information into insight»
«The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.»
«Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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awaited, awaits, clumsy, experiment, insight, involves, putting to death, regarded, The Nature of Things
«The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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chain, circuits, diver, emergence, flush, flushed, flushes, guided, immerse, immersed, immersing, insight, intuition, intuitions, likened, links, miraculous, moment of truth, reasoning, short circuit, sudden, surface of, Truth The, vanishes
«The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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admit, insight, limitations, nearest, perfection, to perfection
«There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
activity, insight, terrible
«Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
fortunate, imparted, insight, intuition, justly, reasoning
«The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.»
«The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from God there can be no wisdom, not any understanding and insight»
«There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
allegiance, authenticity, insight, irrelevant, revelatory
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