Insight Quotes

"Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination."

- Drake

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

- Martin Buber

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

- Henry Miller

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

- Marcel Proust

"Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win."

- Rocky Graziano

"The sun has been there for 500, 600 years."

- Mike Tyson

"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."

- George Brett

"Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental."

- Bruce Coslet

"I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat."

- Chad Ochocinco

"Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?"

- Wilt Chamberlain

"Statistics are like bikinis—they show a lot but not everything."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Walter Scott

"Never answer a question from a farmer."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw."

- James Herriot

"Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton."

- Jimmy Carter

"Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work."

- Sylvia Plath

"In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure."

- George Will

"But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer."

- Adam Johnson

"What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you’re trying to identify? Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?"

- John Steinbeck

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

- Rita Mae Brown

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

- George Orwell

"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

"we cannot prepare for the future without embracing the meaning and the relevance of the baby's perspective on life."

- Michel Odent, MD

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy."

- C.S. Lewis

"Behind every kick of a ball, there has to be a thought."

- Romelu Lukaku

"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half."

- Jan Timman

"If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he’s worse off."

- Nigel Short

"When having an edge, [Anatoly] Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don't know anyone else who could do that, it's incredible."

- Vladimir Kramnik