Best 481 quotes in «insightful quotes» category

Why lamenting Nature, for you have done on Earth and high Heavens the most adorned works,your hues spread the jocund rainbow shine,and blissful thoughts of breeze are awakened,yet like a tainted maid,you droop and wept, sad below the bleak, barren fields, concealed from the steep views,that human kept,and a white cloud of peace in you dissolved.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up.

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

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art or about the flies Orr saw in Appleby's eyes. he had Orr's word to take for Appleby's eyes.

You are a significant, unique, independent, individual soul, who has ventured into this world to expand your awareness of yourself and truth. You are an opportunity for the expansion of consciousness; you are an opportunity for evolution.

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

You are what you believe

You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can grow. Maybe im not alone when I say, sometimes we all get a little confused and feel like we owe it to the people and places to try harder when in reality, most of the time lessons become lifelong if we don't learn the art of peaceful detachment early in the game.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces

You dare quarrel with me Doerwyne? She wrinkled her nose. "It's not quarreling to express an opinion'" "Women don't have opinions." "Then I must be a man, because I have plenty.

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

Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to the race of so eccentric and flighty a companion. How rapid was then my Evelina's progress through those regions of fancy and passion whither her new guide conducted her!-She saw Lord Orville at a ball,-and he was the most amiable of men! -She met him again at another,-and he had every virtue under Heaven!

You're not seeing what you're looking at.

Your beliefs are your power. Your beliefs are your ghost.

You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.

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

Your pain made you strong. It made you passionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.

You want what you can’t have. Again, is it worth it? Does it hurt your heart or does it hurt your balls?”~ grandpa Ray Excerpt From: Boheme, Kade. “Trouble & the Wallflower" Kade Boehme, 2014-03-03T20:38:08+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.

Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.

Dogs are my favorite people.

Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.

Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

German leftists have still not understood the degree to which Russian President Vladimir Putting has drifted to the right domestically. Now, insightful observers are saying that Putin is trying to create something like a reactionary Internationale. The turn toward homophobia and to clerics is completely ignored by leftists in Germany. Their sympathy for Putin comes largely from their antipathy for America. And this anti-Americanism is what binds them with the far-right.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.