Insight Quotes

"People underestimate the power of nostalgia. Nostalgia is truly one of the greatest human weaknesses, second only to the neck."

- Dwight Schrute

"It’s never the person who you most suspect. It’s also never the person you least suspect since anyone with half a brain would suspect them the most. Therefore, I know the killer to be Phyllis… The person who I most medium suspect."

- Dwight Schrute

"Reject a woman, and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also, weak arms."

- Dwight Schrute

"Don’t just look at the patient’s machine observations… look at the patient… and then determine the treatment."

- Unknown Paramedic

"Let perfusion determine treatment."

- Intensive Care Paramedic (QLD)

"People always have two reasons for doing things: a good reason and the real reason. Learn how to discern the real reason."

- Thomas Griffin

"The world operates on incentives and insecurities. If you can track these down in any situation, you’ll discover why someone is behaving the way they are."

- Thomas Griffin

"Money is the primary medium through which insecurities identify themselves."

- Thomas Griffin

"Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness."

- Albus Dumbledore

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

- Albus Dumbledore

"The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask."

- Rick Ridgeway

"Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware."

- Martin Buber

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."

- Aldous Huxley

""If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.""

- Walter Scott

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"“It’s funny. All one has to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”"

- J.D. Salinger

"“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”"

- Jonathan Grimwood

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"I don’t talk trash, I talk smack. They’re totally different. Trash talk is hypothetical... But smack talk is happening like right now."

- Kelly Kapoor

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

- Oscar Wilde

"Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."

- Oscar Wilde

"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."

- Oscar Wilde

"There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time."

- Jane Jacobs

"Somewhere in our DNA we know that stories are out there to help us understand what we’re doing here on this planet."

- Theresa Rebeck

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

- James Baldwin

"A good player plays where the ball is. A great player plays where the ball is going to be."

"Cuando el río suena es que agua lleva."

"La verdad, nunca lo había pensado, sí es algo a considerar."