Quotes

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"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." - John Maynard Keynes
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong." - Edward Cecil
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." - Claus Moser
"By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth." - Peter Abelard
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - John Locke
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." - Mary Shelley
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie
"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out." - John Maynard Keynes
"All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people." - Isaac Newton
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself." - Cicero
"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong." - Voltaire
"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions." - Confucius
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher
"Grief is the price we pay for love." - Queen Elizabeth II
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." - E.M. Forster
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress." - Richard Feynman
"Through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth." - Peter Abelard
"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." - Jorge Luis Borges
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.'" - William S. Burroughs
"Man is wise... when he recognises no greater enemy than himself." - Marguerite de Navarre
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." - John F. Kennedy
"We are just statistics, born to consume resources." - Horace
"Never tell me the odds." - Han Solo
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour." - Charles Dickens
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind." - Mary Ellen Chase
"If you torture the data long enough, Nature will always confess." - Ronald Coase
"I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own." - Nikola Tesla
"I'm more interested in being good than being famous." - Annie Leibovitz
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." - Horace
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not." - André Gide
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion." - Jane Austen
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
"My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it." - Boris Johnson
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." - Warren Buffett
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." - Cervantes
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
"A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil." - William Gibson
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for." - Earl Warren
"Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure." - A.E. Housman
"You can only predict things after they have happened." - Eugene Ionesco
"Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." - Michael Jordan
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" - George Eliot
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it." - Harper Lee
"It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased." - Adam Smith
"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one." - Archibald Wavell
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." - Alan Turing
"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food." - W.C. Fields
"The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended." - Frédéric Bastiat
"Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires." - Estée Lauder
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert Heinlein
"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours." - Milton Berle
"Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it." - Roald Amundsen
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." - Cormac McCarthy
"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." - Herman Melville
"If it is not fit to live in, then our job is to make it fit." - Fela Kuti
"Invention is the mother of necessity." - Thorstein Veblen
"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure." - George Canning
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." - Marvin Minsky
"The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law." - Herbert Hoover
"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." - Franz Kafka
"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises." - Mae West
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Coco Chanel
"Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty." - Dorothy Parker
"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant." - Paulo Coelho
"If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one." - Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it." - Cardinal Richelieu
"Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world." - Alexander von Humboldt
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it." - Agatha Christie
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams
"Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination." - Max Planck
"Keep the company of those who seek the truth - run from those who have found it." - Vaclav Havel
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe." - Le Corbusier
"What matters is the information, not what you think about it." - Anna Politkovskaya
"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it." - Eva Ibbotson
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." - Dylan Thomas
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front." - Nelson Mandela
"Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next." - Matthew Arnold
"Fortune favours the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions." - Susan Sontag
"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument." - William Ewart Gladstone
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov
"When wireless is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain." - Nikola Tesla
"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London
"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening." - Rosa Luxemburg
"Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali
"The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed." - Montesquieu
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"You do not notice changes in what is always before you." - Colette
"A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - Franklin Roosevelt
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
"Don't give up the ship in a storm because you cannot hold back the winds." - Thomas More
"We always plan too much and always think too little." - Joseph Schumpeter
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you." - Alex Haley
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"Only stupid people don't change their minds." - Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say." - Martin Luther
"Those who are unjust in one thing, will be so in others." - Eliza Haywood
"Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy." - Spike Milligan
"Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth." - Paul Krugman
"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." - Stanley Kubrick
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." - Charles Bukowski
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay." - Harold Wilson
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor
"All new news is old news happening to new people." - Malcolm Muggeridge
"Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views." - George Sand
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight Eisenhower
"If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction." - Sam Walton
"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it." - Alistair Cooke
"Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions." - Henry Luce
"Vision without execution is just hallucination." - Henry Ford
"Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defence spending there is." - Kofi Annan
"The aims of life are the best defence against death." - Primo Levi
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." - Samuel Beckett
"Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success." - Prince
"When people throw stones at you, you turn them into milestones." - Sachin Tendulkar
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices." - Edward R. Murrow
"The cemeteries are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle
"Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely." - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
"We first make our habits, then our habits make us" - John Dryden
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." - Golda Meir
"Knowledge is no guarantee of good behaviour, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behaviour." - Martha Nussbaum
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." - Gustave Flaubert
"If honour were profitable, everybody would be honourable." - Thomas More
"When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh." - Nora Ephron
"There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself." - Gilda Radner
"Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem." - Bob Dylan
"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones." - John Lennon
"To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard." - Allen Ginsberg
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
"In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish."
"By making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you." - Joan Kirner
"The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability." - Muhammad Yunus
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." - Katharine Hepburn
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." - Ernest Hemingway
"Our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times." - Hilary Mantel
"You must be completely ready to revise what you hold to be the truth; you always hold things provisionally." - Jocelyn Bell Burnell
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas
"Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." - Marshall McLuhan
"The most effective way to do it is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"The unfed mind devours itself." - Gore Vidal
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Andy Warhol
"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." - Lily Tomlin
"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do." - Colonel Sanders
"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." - Arnold Schoenberg
"I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course." - Lee Kuan Yew
"It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time." - Paul Erdős
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" - T. S. Eliot
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." - Groucho Marx
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable." - Dwight E. Eisenhower
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." - John Le Carré
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it." - Anthony Burgess
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
"Be realistic: plan for a miracle." - Osho
"Where they burn books, they will also burn people." - Heinrich Heine
"It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones." - George Washington
"Desire makes slaves out of kings, while patience makes kings out of slaves." - Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." - Jean Racine
"In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics." - Ronald Coase
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - Haruki Murakami
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away." - Hakuin Ekaku
"Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any." - Edith Wharton
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." - Franklin Roosevelt
"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - Tallulah Bankhead
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness." - Auguste Escoffier
"I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep." - Talleyrand
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore fora very long time." - André Gide
"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it." - Ralph Ellison
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." - Serge Gainsbourg
"You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong." - Alessandro Volta
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn Rand
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." - Charles Bukowski
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - George Burns
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." - Stephen Hawking
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence." - Ovid
"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top." - Arnold Bennett
"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision." - John Major
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." - Washington Irving
"If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will." - Sam Walton
"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." - Jean Paul Sartre
"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect." - Benny Hill
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." - John Maynard Keynes
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X
"One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas." - Victor Hugo
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions." - Alexander Pushkin
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine
"A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them." - Herbert Read
"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame." - Salman Rushdie
"When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction." - John Gay
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" - Jean Cocteau
"We often meet our destiny on the road we took to avoid it." - Jean de La Fontaine
"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance." - John Archibald Wheeler
"Men willingly believe what they wish to be true." - Julius Caesar
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valéry
"No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white." - Karl Popper
"The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation." - C. Northcote Parkinson
"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest." - Hermann Hesse
"How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles." - H.G. Wells
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth." - John Locke
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf
"Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability." - Ho Chi Minh
"The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy." - Jane Addams
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." - D. H. Lawrence
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom." - Roald Dahl
"Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary feature of the expression of the truth." - Josiah Royce
"I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear." - Marco Polo
"If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly." - Edward Albee
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris
"It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people." - Bette Davies
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
"A goal is a dream with a deadline." - Napoleon Hill
"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough." - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts." - José Saramago
"Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law." - Ferdinand de Saussure
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." - Woody Allen
"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." - John Steinbeck
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognised wiser than oneself." - Marlene Dietrich
"For years, kids have been asking me what's the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you're lucky, everything works." - Stan Lee
"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan
"Everything has a small beginning." - Cicero
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Lewis Carroll
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." - Claude Adrien Helvétius
"Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate." - Thomas Aquinas
"History is the unfolding of miscalculations." - Barbara Tuchman
"As government expands, liberty contracts." - Ronald Reagan
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei
"For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it." - Karl Lagerfeld
"The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said." - Linus Pauling
"Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered." - Dr. Seuss
"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working." - Albert Einstein
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H. P. Lovecraft
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford
"Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary." - Milan Kundera
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion." - Anatole France
"Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with." - David Ricardo
"True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire." - Cesar Chavez
"He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances." - David Hume
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment." - Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." - Will Durant
"I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be." - Douglas Adams
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything." - José Saramago
"The greatest ideas are the simplest." - William Golding
"When shall we live if not now?" - M.F.K. Fisher
"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected." - Tove Jansson
"Change is certain. Progress is not." - E.H. Carr
"Easy writing makes hard reading." - Ernest Hemingway
"We must believe in free will - we have no choice." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another." - Alexandre Dumas
"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges." - Neil Armstrong
"Tyranny is always better organised than freedom." - Charles Péguy
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"Man is free at the instant he wants to be." - Voltaire
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it." - Bruce Lee
"In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery." - C.L.R. James
"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die." - Herbert Hoover
"Politeness is for people toward whom we feel indifferent, and moods, both good and bad, are for those we love." - Émile Chartier
"If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure." - Jean Ingelow
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon
"The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer." - Fridtjof Nansen
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh
"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life." - Wislawa Szymborska
"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational." - Herbert Simon
"Some people do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant." - Helen Keller
"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." - James Baldwin
"In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." - Andy Warhol
"Life is first boredom, then fear." - Philip Larkin
"I want to know how the world works, and I hope that I maybe one day can learn enough to make a difference." - Kim Wall
"If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all." - Erwin Schrodinger
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." - Groucho Marx
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail." - Luciano Pavarotti
"Nothing develops intelligence like travel." - Émile Zola
"Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
"I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." - John Keats
"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." - Kazuo Ishiguro
"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore
"It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable." - Isaac Asimov
"If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory." - Carrie Chapman Catt
"The quality will remain long after the price is forgotten." - Henry Royce
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself." - Roland Barthes
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
"A house without books is like a room without windows." - Horace Mann
"There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom." - Carl von Clausewitz
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." - Thomas Mann
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." - Mario Cuomo
"Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks." - José Rizal
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." - Lillian Hellman
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus
"Men willingly believe what they wish to be true" - Julius Caesar
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria." - V.S. Naipaul
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour." - Truman Capote
"Development is a series of rebirths." - Maria Montessori
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long." - Cesare Pavese
"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths." - Queen Elizabeth I
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves." - George Plimpton
"Occupation of the mind is such a source of pleasure that it can relieve even the pain of a headache." - Charles Babbage
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody." - Samuel Johnson
"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions." - Grace Hopper