Insightful Quotes

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct beca...

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly ...

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal re...

Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one...

We must endure, Alyosha." That was the only thing she could say in response to my accounts of the ug...

A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a go...

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another ...

Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's...

That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the...

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The ...

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of...

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some...

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on m...

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm tha...

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm tha...

That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to ...

The trouble with Lucious," he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone," is ...

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly ...

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the...

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we l...

People don't usually think about the meaning of the words they say. It seems to them that words conv...

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and Whi...

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete...

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source...

Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people".

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It...

As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no...

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exa...

The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it is...

I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was ...

Friendship Quote of the Week:"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"…...

And so, when she heard if Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and...

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But y...

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships....

A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. ...

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realitie...

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: ...

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, w...

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often no...

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence, the question is what you can make people be...

Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can m...

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have ...

He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sou...

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every...

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t...

My dear Copperfield,” he replied. “To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objectio...

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no spe...

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him."Because any fool can be happy," he'd ...

Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a ...

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no cente...

An empty man is full of himself.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our...

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it w...

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of ...

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

You only lose what you cling to.

I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to ...

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions...

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraid...

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

The more a man judges, the less he loves

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beauti...

And now a hundred subjective years had passed in those hundred objective hours and he could no longe...

I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what...

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Other...

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade mysel...

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, whi...

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in bu...

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure