Insight Quotes

"Hey, Buddha, nice Tom Fords."

- Roman Roy

"God is in the Details."

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Do not become a mere recorder of facts, but try and penetrate the mystery of their origin."

- Ivan Pavlov

"He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."

- Sigmund Freud

"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."

- Melanie Klein

"Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without."

- Ivan Pavlov

"It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an “accident,” as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a “fact” because Newton asked certain questions."

- Jean Piaget

"When a dreamer substitutes another person for himself, the substitute is not less sharply differentiated than is the dreamer himself. This is merely objectively correct: Other people exist for us only when they are compatible with our own psyche; only suitable people exist for us. When the dreamer substitutes another person for himself, he doesn't care what the person in question might represent. The image occurs immediately as a condensation of different persons. To the dreamer, it depends only on the qualities of the substituted person that correspond to the fulfilment of his wish. Should the dreamer, for example, become envious of beautiful eyes, he condenses various persons with beautiful eyes into a hybrid, producing a type rather than an individual. The type, as investigations on dreams and dementia praecox illustrate, corresponds to an archaic pattern of thinking."

- Sabina Spielrein

"I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect."

- Carl Rogers

"When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge."

- Milton H. Erickson

"It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities."

- Kristin Armstrong

""Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.""

- William Bruce Cameron

"Any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a 'discovery' of mine, but rather something that has always been there and that I had chanced to pick up."

- P. V. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

"But science has given us new eyes that allow us to see down to the deeper roots of the world's structure, and there all we see is order and symmetry of pristine mathematical purity."

- Stephen M. Barr

"I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way."

- Lionel Messi

"The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct"

- Lionel Messi

"The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instincts."

- Lionel Messi

""Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.""

- Deng Ming-Dao

""Now use head for something other than target.""

- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid

""Walk in the middle, get squished like grape.""

- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid

"Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your Word."

- Bible, Psalm 119:18

"And at last I see the light, and it's like the fog has lifted."

- Rapunzel

"Friends? I thought he said we were the enemy!"

- Shenzi

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

- Ronald Reagan

"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."

- Thomas Jefferson

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything."

- Albert Einstein

"Young players are a little bit like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100 per cent sure that the melon is good."

- José Mourinho

"The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct."

"And it's like the fog has lifted"