I'm a bad speller. Really bad. I've become dependent on my computer to guess what I'm trying to type and help me out. I was typing "insightful," and I misspelled it as inciteful. While Outlook failed to know what I was trying to say, when I looked at that word, I thought, ~~weight~~ wait that's not ~~write~~ right.

Then I thought about the difference between those two words, and I laughed. What I meant was the article I read was full of understanding of the true nature, but instead I wrote that the article was full of cause to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way.

Incite \ in-ˈsīt

Insight \ ˈin-ˌsīt

Insight is the older of the two words and was created to describe sight with the eyes of the mind, understanding from within. Incite traces back to Latin incitare "to put into rapid motion." It's evolved from the older to move to action to be filled more with anger and violence. I suppose that's fine. We have "inspire" and "motivate" to move to action in a positive manner.

This set of homophones made me want to connect them. Could insights incite someone? Sure, but I don't endorse insights that cause us to act in anger. If we stick with origin stories, I do like insights that move me to action.