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"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
6,422 people liked it

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

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,821 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,885 people liked it

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

tags: life
859 people liked it

"Looked into the sky, heavy with smoke and human fat, and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. It is not God that kills the children, not fate the butchers them, nor destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

tags: atheism, war
81 people liked it

"No, NAKED GUY'S the stupid one here, naked guy -- NAKED GUY WENT AND MADE HULK ANGRY!! "
— Mark Millar

tags: hulk, ultimates
2 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
7,003 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,509 people liked it

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death, love
2,255 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
1,056 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
771 people liked it

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

tags: death, life, poetry
377 people liked it

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: death, durden, scars, tyler
272 people liked it

"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: death
184 people liked it

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: death
154 people liked it

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
— Thomas Campbell

tags: death
76 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,089 people liked it

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: motivational, scifi
380 people liked it

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."
— Frank Herbert

tags: writing
36 people liked it

"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
— Frank Herbert (Dune Messiah)

26 people liked it

"The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth."
— Frank Herbert (Children of Dune)

18 people liked it

"A quote from Frank Herbert
"... Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"

- from Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear,
in the book Dune by Frank Herbert (1920-1986) "
— Frank Herbert

tags: dune, fear, sf
4 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,829 people liked it

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert A. Heinlein

310 people liked it

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. "
— Robert A. Heinlein

72 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,497 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,933 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,595 people liked it

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

tags: friend, friendship
1,631 people liked it

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

tags: truth
1,874 people liked it

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

tags: truth
907 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
821 people liked it

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth
186 people liked it

"Love truth, but pardon error"
— Voltaire

tags: truth
163 people liked it

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed."
— Malcolm X

tags: truth
62 people liked it

"It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation."
— Anton Szandor LaVey

tags: freedom, truth
47 people liked it

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
— Mark Twain

tags: courage
371 people liked it

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: courage
179 people liked it

"Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads."
— Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent
52 people liked it

""A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
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— William Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, risk
161 people liked it

"it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

tags: courage, inspirational, life
27 people liked it

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."
— Amelia Earhart

tags: courage, initiative
16 people liked it

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. "
— Mary Anne Radmacher

tags: courage
39 people liked it

"One man with courage makes a majority."
— Andrew Jackson

tags: bravery, courage
6 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,642 people liked it

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
694 people liked it

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

tags: happiness
720 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep
395 people liked it

"Write drunk; edit sober."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking, writing
91 people liked it

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: war
55 people liked it

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