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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,861 people liked it

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
3,803 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,526 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,570 people liked it

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
2,009 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,614 people liked it

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational, politics, religion
124 people liked it

"Trust only those who stand to loose as much as you when things go wrong......."
— Sol

tags: humor
120 people liked it

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: politics
17 people liked it

"The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. "
— Ze Frank

tags: internet, politics, quip
9 people liked it

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom
355 people liked it

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
— William Blake

tags: wisdom
44 people liked it

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
1,547 people liked it

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
973 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,694 people liked it

"He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip."
— Laozi

tags: wisdom
13 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics
442 people liked it

"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics
396 people liked it

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
1,114 people liked it

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent
928 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
478 people liked it

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: determination, inspirational, patience
131 people liked it

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
447 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
7,075 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
432 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
725 people liked it

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: happiness
2,757 people liked it

"“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.” "
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: dalai, happiness, harm, lama, reduction
30 people liked it

"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
— Julian Barnes (Flaubert's Parrot)

tags: happiness, stupidity
24 people liked it

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
— George Burns

tags: family, happiness, humor
662 people liked it

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
— Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness
223 people liked it

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— e.e. cummings

tags: death, life, poetry
384 people liked it

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: future, life, past
377 people liked it

"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."
— Henry Miller (Stand Still Like the Hummingbird)

tags: life
114 people liked it

"To perceive is to suffer."
— Aristotle

tags: life, suffer
96 people liked it

"CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight."
— Bill Watterson

tags: life
56 people liked it

"HOBBES:
Virtue needs some cheaper thrills."
— Bill Watterson

tags: life
44 people liked it

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion
392 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,042 people liked it

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

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,425 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,903 people liked it

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: truth
916 people liked it

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)

tags: humor, life, memoir, truth
367 people liked it

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
— Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth
284 people liked it

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth
99 people liked it

"I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in."
— Isaac Bashevis Singer (The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer)

tags: truth
32 people liked it

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."
— Meister Eckhart

tags: fallibility, truth, zen
22 people liked it

"To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. "
— Evelyn Fox Keller (Reflections on Gender and Science: Tenth Anniversary Paperback Edition)

tags: science, truth
12 people liked it

"That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles."
— Robert Walser (Jakob von Gunten)

tags: senselessness, truth
18 people liked it

"“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

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— Bill Gates

tags: reading
10 people liked it

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