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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much"
John Wayne, Actor
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"
William Arthur Ward, Writer
"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"
Thomas Hooker, Leader
"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
"The body is the substance of the stone"
George Ripley, Activist
"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The ancestor of every action is a thought"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Precaution is better than cure"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"With foxes we must play the fox"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"All cruelty springs from weakness"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all"
John F. Kennedy, President
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos"
Will Durant, Historian
"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future"
Niels Bohr, Physicist
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense"
Julian Casablancas, Musician
"Every disadvantage has its advantage"
Johan Cruijff, Athlete
"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody"
William Gilbert, Composer
"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"If an ass goes travelling, he will not come home a horse"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
William Blake, Poet
"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"Haste is of the Devil"
Saint Jerome, Saint
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it"
Terry Pratchett, Author
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls"
Heraclitus, Philosopher
"The more I see, the less I know for sure"
John Lennon, Musician
"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
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