#insight

It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun’. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#insightful #insprational #romantic

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#opinion #probes #social-science #understanding #wisdom

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he’d ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else. ↗

— Victoria Forester

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If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail. ↗

— Sierra St. James

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You only lose what you cling to. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! ↗

— Larry Niven

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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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