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  • #1
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
    Friedrich Neitzsche

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #4
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #6
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    Laurence J. Peter

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    Plato

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    George Lucas
    “No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
    George Lucas, The Star Wars Trilogy

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
    Freidrich Neitzsche

  • #13
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
    Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

  • #14
    Aristotle
    “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
    Aristotle

  • #15
    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    Plato

  • #16
    Sophocles
    “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
    Sophocles

  • #17
    Leon Trotsky
    “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
    Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

  • #18
    Kahlil Gibran
    “If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
    you should not blame the wind for
    revealing them to the trees.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Wanderer

  • #19
    Socrates
    “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
    Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

  • #20
    Plato
    “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
    Plato

  • #21
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. ”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    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

  • #26
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #28
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #30
    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    Socrates



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