Insightful Quotes - Page 2

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

There ain't half been some clever bastards

You Can Trust. Yes, but Try to remember even Demons had their wings.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

Life’s easy.It’s living it that’s difficult.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

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

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

In space you don't stop.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.

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

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

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

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble? I consider that to murder a brother, a mother, a wife, is a thing worthy of some petty Asiatic king, not a Roman Cæsar; but if that position were mine, I should not write justifying letters to the Senate. But Nero writes. Nero is looking for appearances, for Nero is a coward. But Tiberius was not a coward; still he justified every step he took. Why is this? What a marvellous, involuntary homage paid to virtue by evil! And knowest thou what strikes me? This, that it is done because transgression is ugly and virtue is beautiful. Therefore a man of genuine æsthetic feeling is also a virtuous man. Hence I am virtuous.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men.

A loner by nature and an introvert... i am a twinkling star, burning bright amidst a cloudless night. As such, i tend to fade in and out of people's lives. This aspect of me is often misunderstood as rejection or a lack of love and caring. In reality, the only way i can survive as an introvert, is to drop from the sky, from time-to-time, recharging within the energizing landscape of my inner-universe. To love me, is to let me me have the space i need to illuminate the sky. I can't be taken hostage or held captive. Inner-light is what gives my star its twinkle.

Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.