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“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

Social Knowledge Learning Information Communication Management Insight Contrary Transfers Social Life Embedded Social Systems

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Persons Action Powerful Knowledge Human Nature Instinct Insight Core Compulsion

Author:William Bernbach

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.”

Knows May Ideas Science Religion Common Knowledge Path Accounts Fundamentals Insight Uncomfortable Endeavor Suppression

Author:Carl Sagan

“Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world”

“[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.”

“During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.”

Giving Mind Seems Truth Joy Knowledge Produce Periods Activity Intellectual Delight Insight Intuition Relaxation Intuitive Clarifying

Author:Fritjof Capra

“Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.”

Education Knowledge Logic Mathematics Insight Intuition Math Mathematician Conquest Sanctions

Book:Mathematics in Western Culture

Source: Mathematics in Western Culture

“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.”

Ifs Needs Heart Use Eye Understanding Knowledge Perception Intellectual Ears Insight Intuition Intellect Taoism Wise Man Once Said Pierce

Author:Zhuangzi