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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise"
H.G. Wells, Author
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"I know the difference between black magic and white magic"
Tina Turner, Musician
"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult"
Warren Buffett, Businessman
"It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes, and the echo of ourselves in their words"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, in every atom slumbers the might of the self"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
"I am a part of all that I have met"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts"
Saint Jerome, Saint
"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed"
Horace, Poet
"He who can destroy a thing can control a thing"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"Every man makes a god of his own desire"
Virgil, Writer
"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast"
Jean de La Fontaine, Poet
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' mere study of books"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer"
Jane Austen, Writer
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best"
Jane Austen, Writer
"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory"
Josh Billings, Comedian
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