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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Ruskin Bond
    “To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
    Ruskin Bond

  • #4
    Khaled Hosseini
    “it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #5
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    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!

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #17
    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #18
    Umberto Eco
    “Then why do you want to know?"

    "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #19
    Graham Parke
    “I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
    Graham Parke, Unspent Time

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
    Rumi

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

  • #22
    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    Chaim Potok, The Chosen

  • #23
    Chaim Potok
    “Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown.”
    Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

  • #24
    Chaim Potok
    “Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere.”
    Chaim Potok

  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #26
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    Leo Tolstory

  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #29
    Ernst F. Schumacher
    “Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.”
    E.F. Schumacher

  • #30
    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]



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