Jean > Jean's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 38
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41006 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135572 likes

    • like
  • #3
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45312 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
    6886 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114397 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Nancy Thayer
    “It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
    ― Nancy Thayer
    346 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
    23870 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
    5166 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46506 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77770 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
    11484 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31528 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
    37579 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
    33861 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
    8836 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    10851 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Robert Frost
    “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: inspirational, teachers
    805 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Christopher Brennan
    “Were knowledge all, what were our need
    To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?”
    ― Christopher Brennan
    tags: inspirational, love, philosophical, poetry
    129 likes

    • like
  • #19
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60279 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    3229 likes

    • like
  • #21
    “Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.”
    ― Claire Fagin
    tags: education, inspiratonal
    356 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Lawrence Clark Powell
    “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
    ― Lawrence Clark Powell
    tags: communication
    213 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
    8071 likes

    • like
  • #24
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    tags: books, feminist, reading
    4155 likes

    • like
  • #25
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    ― William Durant
    tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational
    1230 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Walt Whitman
    “From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    152 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Lawrence Clark Powell
    “Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.”
    ― Lawrence Clark Powell
    11 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
    27728 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
    3894 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18232 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Jean’s Quotes

aliteracy
attributed-no-source
literacy
books
simile
soul
wisdom
humor
knowledge
action
change
inspirational
misattributed-to-gandhi
philosophy
wish
activism
ethics
justice
optimism
perception
pessimism
carpe-diem
education
learning
life
world
1970
stories
writing
1929
viereck-interview
feathers
hope
souls
teachers
love
philosophical
poetry
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
dreams
explore
misattributed-mark-twain
sail
inspiratonal
communication
astronomer
science
writer
feminist
reading
knowledge-habit-inspirational