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100 admirable quotes and aphorisms by famous and great authors and writers to help improving your ideas and thoughts, to inspire and motivate your behavior, to foster your critical abilities; 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

The only thing that elevates man above the animal is speech;<\/span><\/span> and it’s also the one that often puts it underneath.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nEmil Cioran<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not take life quite so seriously, you surely will never get out of it alive<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll never know how truly damaged a person is unitl you try to love them.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

There is only one virtue, justice; Only one duty, to be happy; Only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.<\/span>
\nDenis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.<\/span>
\nThales<\/span><\/p>\n

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. <\/span>
\nHelen Keller.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever u want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness?<\/span>
\nCharles bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

The only true “philosophy” is that of the hermit who wants nothing to do with the world.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nEmil Cioran<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.<\/span>
\nStephen Hawking<\/span><\/p>\n

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

You should not honor men more than the truth.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest difficulty arises from persuading people to abandon the old ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nJohn Maynard Keynes<\/span><\/p>\n

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The man who first flung a word of abuse at his enemy instead of a spear was the founder of civilization<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.<\/span>
\nWerner Heisenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

I must be on the road to stupidity;<\/span><\/span> I could not follow Oppenheimer’s student speech.<\/span><\/span> He was so learned and difficult that I didn’t understand anything.<\/span><\/span> I consoled myself only with the last sentence, which I understood;<\/span><\/span> he said: … and this is Fermi’s theory of beta decay.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nEnrico fermi<\/span><\/p>\n

If a man know more than others, he becomes lonely.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoping the world treats you right because you’re a good person is like hoping a bull won’t attack you just because you’re a vegetarian.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nDennis Wholey<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

The opinions of others do not pay your bills.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth triumphs by itself, the lie always needs accomplices.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.<\/span>
\nWilliam Drummond<\/span><\/p>\n

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of being a slave is to rule one\u2019s master.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one expected it to be.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

If we lasted forever Everything would change Since we are mortal Much remains as before.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nBertold Brecht<\/span><\/p>\n

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.<\/span>
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

See, people with power understand exactly one thing – violence.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.<\/span>
\nHerodotus<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t bother with churches, government buildings or city squares; if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

Every action has its pleasures and its price.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

The older I get, the less I feel the need to be included, understood or accepted.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won\u2019t be offended.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t handicap your children by making their lives easy.<\/span>
\nRobert A. Heinlein<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mark Twain argued that humor is born of pain, that’s why the true philosopher can only be a humorist.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.<\/span>
\nJean Paul Sartre<\/span><\/p>\n

The learning and knowledge the we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.<\/span>
\nGottfried Leibniz<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness resides not oin possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and I haven’t stopped since.<\/span>
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.<\/span>
\nDiogenes<\/span><\/p>\n

See, people with power understand exactly one thing – violence.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.<\/span>
\nAntiphanes<\/span><\/p>\n

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. <\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. The value of an education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.<\/span>
\nGeorge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

Sic lusus animo debent aliquando dari, ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi. (Cos\u00ec, di tanto in tanto, devi lasciare svagare la mente, perch\u00e9 torni a te pi\u00f9 pronta quando occorre pensare.)<\/span>
\nFedro, Favole, 3, 14.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without love living is easy; but it’s meaningless.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.<\/span>
\nChristopher Walken<\/span><\/p>\n

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.<\/span>
\nDante<\/span><\/p>\n

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.<\/span>
\nWilliam Arthur Ward<\/span><\/p>\n

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.<\/span>
\nBob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophers have never killed priests, but priests have killed many philosophers.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nDennis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

Make peace with your broken pieces. They’re your mosaic.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.<\/span>
\nHannah Arendt<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest wealth is to be content with little.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.<\/span>
\nCharles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Being poor is only romantic in books.<\/span>
\nSydney Sheldon<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. <\/span>
\nKarl Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people die at 25 and aren\u2019t buried until 75.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

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

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.<\/span>
\nThales<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.<\/span>
\nDale Carnegie<\/span><\/p>\n

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life’s key: be check’d for silence, But never tax’d for speech.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Dirty water doesn’t stop plants from growing, so don’t let negative words stop your progress.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.<\/span>
\nBertolt Brecht<\/span><\/p>\n

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.<\/span>
\nLeo Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

To withhold from living is to die; the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.<\/span>
\nAnais Nin<\/span><\/p>\n

Being against evil doesn\u2019t make you good.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

They muddy the water to make it seem deep.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.<\/span>
\nHeinrich B\u00f6ll<\/span><\/p>\n

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.<\/span>
\nHerodotus<\/span><\/p>\n

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.<\/span>
\nJohn Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Quando il sole della cultura \u00e8 basso, i nani hanno l\u2019aspetto di giganti.<\/span>
\nKarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

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