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"The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil"
Swami Sivananda, Philosopher
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts"
Og Mandino, Author
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool"
Anatole France, Novelist
"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things"
George Eliot, Author
"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all"
Anatole France, Novelist
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Mystery is not profoundness"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order"
Henry Miller, Writer
"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things"
Henry Miller, Writer
"That which costs little is less valued"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Reality is not always probable, or likely"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"Hatred observes with more care than love does"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"I allow my intuition to lead my path"
Manuel Puig, Author
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue"
Henry James, Writer
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
"We see things as we are, not as they are"
Leo Rosten, Novelist
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity"
Coco Chanel, Designer
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury"
Coco Chanel, Designer
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there, too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering, one wants something else"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"We have two ears and one tongue, so that we would listen more and talk less"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
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