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#1

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#2

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7579 likes

#3

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

tags: philosophy, wisdom

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#4

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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#5

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

5137 likes

#6

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom

4388 likes

#7

“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: be-yourself, be-yourself-inspirational, be-yourself-quote, be-yourself-quotes, heart, inner-voice, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, wisdom, wise

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#8

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learn, learning, life, life-quotes, light, light-and-darkness, living-life, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful, meaningful-life, wisdom, wise

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#9

“There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

tags: darkness, darkness-and-light, evil, evil-men, evil-people, good-and-evil, good-vs-evil, light, light-and-darkness

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#10

“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

tags: appreciation, blessing, blessings, blessings-in-disguise, curse, dark-night-of-the-soul, desperation, dualism, duality, gratitude, happiness, joy, life-journey, life-lessons, light-and-darkness, pearls, sadness, tears, wisdom, yin-and-yang

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#11

“Stay wild, moon child."
I will shine my full silver light on your path, Moon child. Trust your intuition and follow your dreams. When I go dark, go within and tend to yourself, set your goals and release what no longer serves. When I come out of the shadow Moon child, go, be brave, and to yourself stay wild and true.”
― Riitta Klint

tags: brave-heart, goals-in-life, light-and-darkness, lightworkers, moonchild, true-self, wild-woman, within-quotes

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#12

“You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

tags: darkness-and-light, darkness-within, defeat-the-darkness, inner-demons, light, light-and-darkness, light-within

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#13

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: acceptance, ask-questions, awaken, awakened, awakened-heart, awakened-soul, awakening, awakening-mind, aware, awareness, conscience, conscious, consciousness, dark, darkness, development, enlighten, experiences, illumination, individual, individualism, individuality, inquiring, knowledge, knowledge-power, lessons, lies, life, light, light-and-darkness, light-quotations, light-quotes, media, morality, philosophy, pop-culture, popular, popular-opinion, popularity, power, question-everything, questions, right-and-wrong, right-questions, seek-truth, seeker, seeking-answers, seeking-truth, sheep, sleeping, spiritual, spiritual-growth, spirituality, thinking, transcedental, transcendence, waking-up, wisdom, wrong

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#14

“Do not fight to expel the darkness from the chamber of your soul...Open a tiny aperture for light to enter, and the darkness will disappear.”
― Saint Porphyrios

tags: light-and-darkness

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#15

“I'm going to tell you something that a wise man once told me: it's not the darkness that's terrifying, it's what you might find in it. I was always afraid of the dark as a child, afraid monsters would sneak into my room at night, but now I know there's nothing to fear. Not because monsters don't exist. They do. I've seen them. I've encountered them. One attacked me as I slept. I even became one myself afterward. No, the reason there's nothing to fear in the dark is because real monsters lurk in the light, too. They hide in plain sight. The trick is to find them before they can get you. I'm not a good man. I'm not. I know...I've learned my lesson. I find peace in the darkness sometimes now. I find peace with her. I'll never forget, but she makes me feel like it's okay to remember. It's okay to remember the pain and fear. It's okay to admit the darkness terrified me. Because I found some light in it. I found her.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

tags: inspirational, light-and-darkness, monsters

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#16

“The universe will never be extinguished because just when the darkness seems to have smothered all, to be truly transcendent, the new seeds of light are reborn in the very depths.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: light-and-darkness

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#17

“Don’t stand in the shadows of the past move into the LIGHT of the future.”
― Syed Sharukh

tags: future-quotes, light-and-darkness, light-quotations, light-quotes, lighthouse, mysticism, shadow-quotes

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#18

“Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: ego, human-existence, midlife

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#19

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed

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#20

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

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#21

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom-of-choice, government, inspirational, political-philosophy, politics

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#22

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

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#23

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
― Gerald R. Ford

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#24

“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: government, political-philosophy, politics, scope-of-government

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#25

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

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#26

“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: government, patriotism, politics

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#27

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: crime, government, innocence, law, libertarian

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#28

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: constitution, education, government, liberty, politics

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#29

“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

tags: conservatism, fascism, government, liberalism, political, politics, socialism

161 likes

#30

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: dictatorship

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