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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

By Albert Einstein

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#human-nature, #humor, #infinity, #philosophy, #science, #stupidity, #universe

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

By Aristotle

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#inspirational, #philosophy, #writing

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

By Anne Frank

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#activism, #life, #optimism, #philosophy

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

By Albert Einstein

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#curiosity, #philosophy, #wonder

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

By J.R.R. Tolkien

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#fantasy, #literature, #philosophy

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

By Mahatma Gandhi

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#action, #change, #inspirational, #philosophy, #wish

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

By Plato

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#discipline, #education, #mentoring, #philosophy

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

By Kahlil Gibran

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#philosophy, #poetry

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

By Frank Zappa

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#music, #philosophy, #progress

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

By Confucius

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#complexity, #philosophy, #simplicity

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

By Stephen Hawking

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#philosophy, #science

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#adults, #children, #philosophy

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

By Gabriel García Márquez

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#aging-well, #disillusionment, #growing-older, #philosophy

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

By Niccolò Machiavelli

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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

By Seneca

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#latin, #philosophy, #stars

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#essay, #inspirational, #lecture, #philosophy, #self-reliance, #social-commentary, #transcendentalism

No man was ever wise by chance

By Seneca

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

By Bertrand Russell

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#confidence, #eccentricity, #philosophy

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

By Santosh Kalwar

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#addiction, #life-lessons, #philosophy, #thinking

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

By Socrates

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

By May Sarton

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#authenticity, #life, #philosophy, #self

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

By Mo Willems

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#fairy-tales, #humor, #humorous, #philosophy, #psychology

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

By Socrates

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#knowledge, #philosophy

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

By Laurence J. Peter

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#human, #humor, #misattributed-einstein, #philosophy, #stupidity

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

By Terry Johnson

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#humor, #misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, #philosophy

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

By Iain M. Banks

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#belief, #cognitive-dissonance, #confirmation-bias, #foreigners, #philosophy

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

By Albert Camus

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#human-nature, #man, #mankind, #philosophy

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

By Friedrich Nietzsche

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#humor, #philosophy

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

By Robertson Davies

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#belief, #bias, #knowledge, #perception, #philosophy, #reality

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

By Elie Wiesel

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#activism, #apathy, #hate, #indifference, #inspirational, #love, #opposite, #philosophy

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

By Dr. Seuss

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#humor, #philosophy

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

By D.H. Lawrence

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#life, #living, #philosophy, #women

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

By Margaret Mead

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#activism, #change, #inspirational, #life, #philosophy

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