A Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Stephen Jay Gould
American - Scientist
September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Milton H. Erickson

We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses, who often work through the night with people, not only suffering from a terminal illness but their families, they're just extraordinary people.

Mel Giedroyc

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

Rob Pike

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

George Eliot

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

Edward Tufte

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.

Marianne Williamson

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

James C. Collins

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

John Polanyi

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Janna Levin

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

Ernest Hemingway

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

Erica Jong

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

Tom Waits

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

Norm MacDonald

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.

David Lowery

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

Phil Elverum

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