{"id":162005,"date":"2025-02-26T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=162005"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:43:05","slug":"100-exceptional-quotes-and-aphorisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/100-exceptional-quotes-and-aphorisms\/","title":{"rendered":"100 exceptional quotes and aphorisms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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100 exceptional quotes and aphorisms, a selection of 100 distinguished, eminent, excellent, famous, special, great and magnificent maxims by famous authors, philosophers and artists through the centuries to help everyone thinking deeply while improving creativity, 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

Since aphorisms represent discontinuous knowledge, they invite further inquiry, while systems, bearing the semblance of a certain totality, reassure men as if they were at the pinnacle of knowledge.<\/span>
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Little things have their importance: it is always for little things that we get lost.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Books weigh a lot: yet those who feed on them, and put them in their bodies, live among the clouds.<\/span>
\nLuigi Pirandello<\/span><\/p>\n

The present age is the time of golden mediocrity and insensitivity, of the passion for ignorance, of laziness, of inability to work and of the aspiration to find everything ready-made. No one thinks; rarely is there anyone who conceives an idea.<\/span>
\nFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to language, humans have developed their knowledge and at the same time have also magnified their stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

At the heart of every aphorism, no matter how new or even paradoxical it may seem, beats an ancient truth.<\/span>
\nArthur Schnitzler<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy. <\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. <\/span>
\nNick Cave<\/span><\/p>\n

Sic aliud ex alio numquam desistet oriri\/vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu. (Beings never cease to be born from one another, and life is the property of no one but the usufruct of all.)<\/span>
\nLucrezio<\/span><\/p>\n

Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.<\/span>
\nNatasha Munson<\/span><\/p>\n

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

This life\u2019s hard, but it\u2019s harder if you\u2019re stupid.<\/span>
\nGeorge V. Higgins<\/span><\/p>\n

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.<\/span>
\nArundhati Roy<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.<\/span>
\nEdith Wharton<\/span><\/p>\n

To my muses. I like people who don’t like things easily, if they dislike them, even better!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

We all have to die, all of us, what a circus! If only for this we should all love each other and instead no, we are crushed by banality, we are devoured by nothingness.<\/span>
\nCharles Hank Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering ourselves experts often turns us into idiots.<\/span>
\nOliver Burkeman<\/span><\/p>\n

Communicate. Even when it\u2019s uncomfortable or uneasy. One of the best ways to heal, is simply getting everything out. <\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

This is only one of impostorism’s frustrating ironies. Another is that true frauds and idiots rarely seem to experience it. <\/span>
\nOliver Burkeman<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we were brought into the world without any guarantees and with a rather limited understanding of total quality.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.<\/span>
\nKahlil Gibran<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in a state of confidence and positive expectancy, the decisions, you make will be quite different than if you\u2019re feeling vulnerable and fearful.<\/span>
\nAnthony Robbins<\/span><\/p>\n

I like to define medicine as a mix of art, magic, science and theft.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure you have financial intelligence\u2026 I don\u2019t care if you have money or you don\u2019t have money\u2026 you need to go and study finance no matter what.<\/span>
\nDaymond John<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chester Beatty Research Institute director was Sir Alexander Haddow, a supporter of the philosophy of paradoxes: all scientific research is inspired by a paradox.<\/span>
\nUmberto Veronesi<\/span><\/p>\n

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. <\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is a very mysterious and confusing place, if you are not willing to get confused, you become a replica of someone else’s mind.<\/span>
\nNoam Chomsky<\/span><\/p>\n

All art must be political, on the contrary it is not art, like the useless stuff of some artisans or musicians who try to survive selling their escape and trivial services to the power, more or less consciously!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have a faith that in this love there is strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. <\/span>
\nRainer Maria Rilke<\/span><\/p>\n

From a certain point onwards there is no return. This is the point to reach.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t overestimate the stupidity of the general public.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

An artist who creates literary works should have more awareness and more expertise than a surgeon, he is not operating on a man, he is intervening on humanity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. <\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. <\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

Having your head in the clouds is very comfortable, it allows you to meet only people who know how to fly.<\/span>
\nAlda Merini<\/span><\/p>\n

An old love is like a grain of sand, in an eye, that always torments us.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.<\/span>
\nOsho<\/span><\/p>\n

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Now all food is getting more and more disgusting, enough, I’ve decided, from now on I will feed myself with chlorophyll photosynthesis!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy is power. People cannot destroy what they do not know.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s human nature when you lose money quickly you want to make it back twice as quick. Slow down, keep focused, and stick to your strategy.<\/span>
\nIan Cassel<\/span><\/p>\n

The ability to cut a loss while it\u2019s small is a core trading skill.<\/span>
\nSteve Burns<\/span><\/p>\n

The positive force and negative force of a magnet cannot coexist in the same mind. Neither can faith and fear coexist in the same mind. People full of fear, worry, doubt, indecision, and other negative thinking cannot at the same time possess faith, confidence, belief and positive expectancy.<\/span>
\nPaul J Meyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Confidence doesn\u2019t come out of nowhere. It\u2019s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.<\/span>
\nRoger Staubach<\/span><\/p>\n

For humans the greatest paradox, or absurdity if you prefer, is to have the knowledge of eternity and at the same time the awareness of the extremely limited duration of one’s existence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won’t get needed care if we don’t increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.<\/span>
\nJeff Merkley<\/span><\/p>\n

No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.<\/span>
\nJesse Livermore<\/span><\/p>\n

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.<\/span>
\nSebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not do good if you do not have the strength to bear ingratitude.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

You will know great pain and in pain you will be happy. Here is my teaching: in pain seek happiness.<\/span>
\nFyodor Dostoevsky<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a pill that no one can swallow unless it is golden.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

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To win a battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.<\/span>
\nMiyamoto Musashi<\/span><\/p>\n

Life goes on loving those who do not love us and being loved by those we will never love.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Time forbids you to go back and change the beginning, but you can proceed further on and try to change the ending. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.<\/span>
\nAgatha Christie<\/span><\/p>\n

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.<\/span>
\nJosh Billings<\/span><\/p>\n

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.<\/span>
\nIsaac Newton<\/span><\/p>\n

Our memories are as meaningless to others as our lives are.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal finance is only 20% head knowledge. It\u2019s 80% behavior!<\/span>
\nDave Ramsey<\/span><\/p>\n

If they are wise don’t quarrel with them, if they are fools, ignore them.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

At the heart of life itself the experience of death occurs. Media vita in morte sumus.<\/span>
\nEpicuro<\/span><\/p>\n

No mortal will ever pass through life completely free from pain, each always pays his price for life.<\/span>
\nAeschylus<\/span><\/p>\n

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.<\/span>
\nCarl G. Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?<\/span>
\nJules Verne<\/span><\/p>\n

If it stays, It is love. If it ends, It’s a love story. If it never begins, It poetry.<\/span>
\nNichomachus<\/span><\/p>\n

Love whoever loves you.<\/span><\/span> Do not love whoever flees you, love that heart that pines for you.<\/span><\/span> It is not he who loves you who tells you he loves you, but he who looks and is silent.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Death, memory, memories, these are the three fundamental key words of all human art.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.<\/span>
\nAnatole France<\/span><\/p>\n

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.<\/span>
\nAyn Rand<\/span><\/p>\n

The great are fragile, the idiots are not.<\/span>
\nPaolo Crepet<\/span><\/p>\n

The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.<\/span>
\nMarty Schwartz<\/span><\/p>\n

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful; In every one of these no man is free…<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.<\/span>
\nRudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

The right to insult is the right of a free man.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.<\/span>
\nS\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people are right, you don’t need to be educated to vegetate.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.<\/span>
\nChuang Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.<\/span>
\nGoethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of never trying.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.<\/span>
\nGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell! <\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

When a law is unjust, the right thing is not to obey it.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

The end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.<\/span>
\nJohn Locke<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagination is more important than knowledge.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.<\/span>
\nInspirational quote<\/span><\/p>\n

When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.<\/span>
\nPersian proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

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