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  • #1
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    Voltaire

  • #2
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #3
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #4
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #10
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #11
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #12
    Hermann Hesse
    “Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: self

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

  • #20
    Henrik Ibsen
    “The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?”
    Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #22
    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #24
    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #25
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #26
    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

  • #29
    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country



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