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Top 100 great quotes and aphorisms so that you can start caring a bit more about the struggle against human stupidity, edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.<\/span>
\nJack Kerouac<\/span><\/p>\n

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

If you knew Time as well as I do, said the Hatter, you wouldn\u2019t talk about wasting it. It’s him. <\/span>
\nLewis Caroll<\/span><\/p>\n

A short saying often contains much wisdom.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest form of communication is listening.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nStephen Littleword<\/span><\/p>\n

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his errors.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullio Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

A thunderstorm was in our air; the nature that we are became dark – for we had no other way.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

No battle is ever won. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of fools.<\/span>
\nWilliam Faulkner<\/span><\/p>\n

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.<\/span>
\nJohn Barrymore<\/span><\/p>\n

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

Saying nothing sometimes says the most.<\/span>
\nEmily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes absence is more important than presence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

If people throw stones at you, don’t worry, and try to avoid being hitted, then collect them and build something new. In no case you should throw them back, think it over, a gun perhaps is better. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.<\/span>
\nFederico Garcia Lorca<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is of no value unless you out it into practice.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/span><\/p>\n

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.<\/span>
\nMarcus Garvey<\/span><\/p>\n

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Have more than you show, speak less than you know.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing more deleterious for the human society that minding only to your own business.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

No one has ever become poor by giving.<\/span>
\nAnne Frank<\/span><\/p>\n

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

Open your mind before your mouth.<\/span>
\nAristophanes<\/span><\/p>\n

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.<\/span>
\nFrank Zappa<\/span><\/p>\n

Never follow a leader who is more in love with power than people.<\/span>
\nNative American Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Confucius used to say that \u201cBefore you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.\u201d, but I think it’s better to start building a whole graveyard.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

You spend most of your life inside your head, make it a good place to be.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Experience is the teacher of all things.<\/span>
\nJulius Caesar<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure of a man is what he does with power.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

But if the universe doesn’t even know that you exist, you can imagine your situation in the pluriverse.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.<\/span>
\nJean-Jacques Rousseau<\/span><\/p>\n

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My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.<\/span>
\nWayne Dyer<\/span><\/p>\n

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.<\/span>
\nAlan Watts<\/span><\/p>\n

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man fills his brain before emptying his mouth.<\/span>
\nAfrican proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Love of power, operating through greed, personal ambition and stupidity, is the source of all evils.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

All you can lose by being real is something that’s fake.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.<\/span>
\nMartin Amis<\/span><\/p>\n

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.<\/span>
\nAlexandra K. Trenfor<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.<\/span>
\nJean-Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.<\/span>
\nTim Duncan<\/span><\/p>\n

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.<\/span>
\nPublilius Syrus<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.<\/span>
\nSolon<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t confuse power with leadership. The wise don’t need power to lead.<\/span>
\nTao Te Ching<\/span><\/p>\n

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.<\/span>
\nLeonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

They look for skeletons in your closet and they have a graveyard under the bed.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

People who shine from within don’t need a spotlight.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

It is easier for a man to burn down his house than to get rid of his prejudices.<\/span>
\nRoger Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindness doesn’t cost a thing, yet it’s the richest gift you can give.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Our life is what our thoughts make it.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of others.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t care who is doing better than me. I am doing better than I was last year. It’s me vs me.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

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The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

You can k\u00efll a man but you can\u2019t k\u00efll an idea.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

You can fuck your whole life up just by hanging out with people with no goals or ambitions.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is the food of the soul.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.<\/span>
\nPhaedrus<\/span><\/p>\n

Where love rules, laws are not needed.<\/span>
\nAnnie Besant<\/span><\/p>\n

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.<\/span>
\nJohann Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philospher.<\/span>
\nAmbrose Bierce<\/span><\/p>\n

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.<\/span>
\nAnais Nin<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.<\/span>
\nLucius Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t live for your presence to be noticed, but for your absence to be felt.<\/span>
\nBob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

When you build in silence, people don’t know what to attack.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.<\/span>
\nHans Christian Andersen<\/span><\/p>\n

People do not decide their future, they decide their habits and their habits decide their future.<\/span>
\nMatthias Alexander<\/span><\/p>\n

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

The hardest test in life is the patience to wait for the right moment.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Desire makes slaves out of kings, and patience makes kings out of slaves.<\/span>
\nAl Ghazali<\/span><\/p>\n

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