Insight Quotes

"It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"And We have certainly created man and We know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein."

- Quran 50:16

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense."

- Carl Sagan

"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

- Niels H. D. Bohr

"One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men."

- Bhagavad Gita

"Yet mad I am not… and very surely do I not dream."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I was never really insane except upon occasions where my heart was touched."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"That which you mistake for madness is but an over acuteness o the senses"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence…"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence— whether much that is glorious— whether all that is profound— does not spring from disease of thought— from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Although I saw that the features of Ligeia were not of a classic regularity—although I perceived that her loveliness was indeed ‘exquisite,’ and felt that there was much of ‘strangeness’ pervading it, yet I have tried in vain to detect the irregularity and to trace home my own perception of ‘the strange.’"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine…"

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

"The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour."

- Wernher von Braun

"The best accountants don’t just interpret numbers; they decipher the language of financial success."

- Sarah Brown

"To understand accounting is to comprehend the very fabric of economic reality."

- Laura Anderson

"If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence."

- Donald Rumsfeld

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

- Smedley Butler

"If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

- Sun Tzu

"One may know how to conquer without being able to do it."

- Sun Tzu

"Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots."

- Sun Tzu

"Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has."

- John Lubbock

"If you could isolate the physical feeling, it would barely register as a small itch. I call this the Little Nicotine Monster. There is also a Big Monster in your mind. This is the brainwashing that tells you smoking is your crutch, your pleasure, and that you can’t live without it."

- Allen Carr

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

- Elon Musk

"Thursdays bring a fresh perspective; use it to your advantage."

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Words are like bees – some create honey and others leave a sting"

- Unknown

"A wise person is like a bee, extracting only the useful from any situation."