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#1

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

2080 likes

#2

“What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

tags: judgement

94 likes

#3

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25519 likes

#4

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance

1234 likes

#5

“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: algernon, humor, literature, reading

239 likes

#6

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6888 likes

#7

“Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.”
― Terry Goodkind

167 likes

#8

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: public-opinion, willful-ignorance, wizard-s-rules

1168 likes

#9

“Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.”
― Terry Goodkind

83 likes

#10

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

6659 likes

#11

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: humor, life

3608 likes

#12

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

1195 likes

#13

“There's always a bloody ghost.”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

tags: humor

70 likes

#14

“If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

84 likes

#15

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50621 likes

#16

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48264 likes

#17

“What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

41 likes

#18

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: knowledge, philosophy

968 likes

#19

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
― Alexandre Dumas

320 likes

#20

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

233 likes

#21

“D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: humor

109 likes

#22

“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.”
― Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones

198 likes

#23

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry

820 likes

#24

“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
― Terry Goodkind

227 likes

#25

“Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation

tags: charity

139 likes

#26

“...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.”
― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire

tags: fantasy, wizard-s-rules, zedd

193 likes

#27

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights

1689 likes

#28

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: inspirational

900 likes

#29

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: burn, cold, winter

1478 likes

#30

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: life, men-and-women

602 likes

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