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"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must"
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician
"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good"
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat
"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Don't judge a book by its thickness either"
Craig Bruce, Writer
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"
David Hume, Philosopher
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"The entire fruit is already present in the seed"
Tertullian, Author
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure"
Russell Baker, Journalist
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn"
Walter Scott, Novelist
"Speech is the mirror of action"
Solon, Statesman
"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"
Marilyn French, Author
"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed"
Sean O'Casey, Playwright
"If you live among wolves, you have to act like a wolf"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee"
Ben Jonson, Poet
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things"
Ben Jonson, Poet
"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its weight it impedes more than it protects"
Robert Burns, Poet
"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most like it the least"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"In Italian, there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame"
Donatella Versace, Designer
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"
Willa Cather, Author
"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool"
Harold Macmillan, Politician
"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain"
R. D. Laing, Psychologist
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
"Power is paradoxical"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing, it refuses nothing, it receives but does not keep"
Zhuang Zi, Philosopher
"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but"
John Berger, Artist
"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life"
Aristophanes, Poet
"Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt"
Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many"
Phaedrus, Poet
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