Insight Quotes

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Good advice helps you find the solution to your problem. Great advice helps you find you were solving the wrong problem."

- Merlin Mann

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

- Marcel Proust

"The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."

- Benjamin Graham

"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Half of all marriages end in divorce—and then there are the really unhappy ones."

- Joan Rivers

"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to."

- Helen Rowland

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

- Carl Jung

"You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn’t bust a grape in a fruit fight."

- Jay-Z

"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal."

- Samuel Richardson

"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."

- Heraclitus

"Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person."

- Stevie Wonder

"In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion."

- Ishmael Beah

"The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now."

- Taylor Swift

"The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are."

- Michael Jordan

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."

- Vincent van Gogh

"How Is Never as Important as Why."

- Namor / K'uk'ulkan

"My instincts have never lied to me."

- Tiger Woods

"Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do."

"If you want to know what a man truly values, look at where he spends his time and his money."

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money."

"The sky is a reminder that we are all capable of insight."

"Meaning often hides between the lines of a memorable saying."

"To think deeply is to visit undiscovered continents without moving."

"The cleverest thoughts are sometimes tucked inside the ordinary day."

"Meaning hides in the corners where few minds bother to look."

"Shift your focus; sometimes the solution hides in the periphery."

"Shift your focus, and even ordinary moments reveal clever lessons."