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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,642 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,154 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,344 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,205 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,088 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,494 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,896 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,859 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,148 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,659 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
828 people liked it

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, novels, reading
222 people liked it

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: books
152 people liked it

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books
353 people liked it

"He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot."
— Arabic proverb

tags: books, borrowing, lending
136 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,364 people liked it

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education
362 people liked it

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
— Brigham Young

tags: education, feminism, men, women
458 people liked it

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. "
— Jane Austen

tags: education, women
151 people liked it

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education
132 people liked it

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
— Henry Ford

tags: education
100 people liked it

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
159 people liked it

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
— George Washington

tags: education, government, liberty, politics, youth
61 people liked it

"When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling."
— John Taylor Gatto

tags: education, system
50 people liked it

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."
— Brigham Young

tags: education, learning
44 people liked it

"Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily."
— Chinese proverb

tags: education, wisdom
115 people liked it

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
— Aristotle

tags: education
115 people liked it

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: education
67 people liked it

"It does not make much difference what a person studies -- all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will become learned."
— Hypatia

tags: education, knowledge, philosophy
22 people liked it

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: education, liberty, vanity
20 people liked it

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
— Plutarch

tags: education, mind, thinking
108 people liked it

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
— James Madison

tags: education, freedom, intelligence, knowledge, liberty, media
11 people liked it

"Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor."
— Horace Mann

tags: education
5 people liked it

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

tags: education, prejudice
29 people liked it

"Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits."
— DeMill, Oliver

tags: education
1 person liked it

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
— Aristotle

tags: education
85 people liked it

"the earth laughs in flowers."
— e.e. cummings

tags: nature
88 people liked it

"The earth has music for those who listen."
— William Shakespeare

tags: nature
186 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,429 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,712 people liked it

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
1,570 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,690 people liked it

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: humor
211 people liked it

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