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"'It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is"
"And freezing"
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.""
— A.A. Milne

tags: humor, optimism
84 people liked it

"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
12,460 people liked it

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: books, censorship, reading
73 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,472 people liked it

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. "
— Isaac Asimov

72 people liked it

"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
— Isaac Asimov

12 people liked it

"One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem."
— Alexander Jodorowsky

tags: creativity, empty, full, half, optimism, pessimism, problem, solving
23 people liked it

"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor
743 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,806 people liked it

"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
5,694 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
6,580 people liked it

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm
223 people liked it

"They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions."
— Isaac Asimov (Pebble in the Sky)

tags: epistemology
19 people liked it

"Calvin (to Suzy)- You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!"
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, comic, funny, school
226 people liked it

"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
— Bill Watterson

tags: procrastination
310 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational
5,180 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,704 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,358 people liked it

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, reality
467 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,746 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,307 people liked it

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: books, humor
1,247 people liked it

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
— Benjamin Franklin

27 people liked it

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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— Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

8 people liked it

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

25 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
997 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,482 people liked it

"When you are finished changing, you're finished."
— Benjamin Franklin

29 people liked it

"I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, genius, misunderstood
148 people liked it

"Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes
66 people liked it

"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Alexander Hamilton

tags: bravery, conviction, ignorance, intelligence, stand, strength, stupidity, wisdom
199 people liked it

"Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible."
— Isaac Asimov

2 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,938 people liked it

"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: procrastination
43 people liked it

"A book is a garden carried in one's pocket."
— Chinese Proverb

tags: books, garden, proverb, reading, wisdom
19 people liked it

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin

151 people liked it

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: liberty, security
554 people liked it

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
191 people liked it

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
— Benjamin Franklin

134 people liked it

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
— Robert Frost

tags: england, new, wisdom
212 people liked it

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
39 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,874 people liked it

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: government, justice, laws, politics
36 people liked it

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: secrets
68 people liked it

"I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, negotiation, procrastination
146 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,824 people liked it

"Who wills, Can.
Who tries, Does.
Who loves, Lives."
— Anne McCaffrey

42 people liked it

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
— Benjamin Franklin

85 people liked it

"[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child."
— Robin McKinley (The Blue Sword)

tags: reading
28 people liked it

"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
— Benjamin Franklin

36 people liked it

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