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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.

The only thing that elevates man above the animal is speech; and it’s also the one that often puts it underneath.
Emil Cioran

Do not take life quite so seriously, you surely will never get out of it alive
Elbert Hubbard

You’ll never know how truly damaged a person is unitl you try to love them.
Anonymous

There is only one virtue, justice; Only one duty, to be happy; Only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
Denis Diderot

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln

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?
Charles bukowski

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.
Aristotle

The only true “philosophy” is that of the hermit who wants nothing to do with the world.
Emil Cioran

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.
Stephen Hawking

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.
Aristotle

You should not honor men more than the truth.
Plato

The greatest difficulty arises from persuading people to abandon the old ideas.
John Maynard Keynes

The man who first flung a word of abuse at his enemy instead of a spear was the founder of civilization
Sigmund Freud

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
Werner Heisenberg

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

If a man know more than others, he becomes lonely.
Carl Jung

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.
Dennis Wholey

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Plato

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

The opinions of others do not pay your bills.
Anonymous

The truth triumphs by itself, the lie always needs accomplices.
Epictetus

He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
William Drummond

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
Diogenes

Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one expected it to be.
Maya Angelou

I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist.
Bertrand Russell

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
George Bernard Shaw

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

If we lasted forever Everything would change Since we are mortal Much remains as before.
Bertold Brecht

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.
Søren Kierkegaard

See, people with power understand exactly one thing – violence.
Noam Chomsky

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Herodotus

Don’t bother with churches, government buildings or city squares; if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars.
Ernest Hemingway

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Every action has its pleasures and its price.
Socrates

The older I get, the less I feel the need to be included, understood or accepted.
Anonymous

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.
Anonymous

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Twain argued that humor is born of pain, that’s why the true philosopher can only be a humorist.
Carl William Brown

It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
Jean Paul Sartre

The learning and knowledge the we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
Lao Tzu

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
Gottfried Leibniz

Happiness resides not oin possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and I haven’t stopped since.
Søren Kierkegaard

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
Diogenes

See, people with power understand exactly one thing – violence.
Noam Chomsky

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Thomas Paine

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Antiphanes

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
George Carlin

Sic lusus animo debent aliquando dari, ad cogitandum melior ut redeat tibi. (Così, di tanto in tanto, devi lasciare svagare la mente, perché torni a te più pronta quando occorre pensare.)
Fedro, Favole, 3, 14.

Without love living is easy; but it’s meaningless.
Leo Tolstoy

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.
Heraclitus

If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people.
Christopher Walken

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
Epictetus

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Bob Marley

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Philosophers have never killed priests, but priests have killed many philosophers.
Dennis Diderot

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.
John Lennon

Make peace with your broken pieces. They’re your mosaic.
Anonymous

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt

The greatest wealth is to be content with little.
Plato

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens

A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
Mark Twain

Being poor is only romantic in books.
Sydney Sheldon

Our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.
Benjamin Franklin

The measurement of a man is what he does with power.
Plato

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

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.
William Shakespeare

Dirty water doesn’t stop plants from growing, so don’t let negative words stop your progress.
Anonymous

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
Bertolt Brecht

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.
Leo Tolstoy

To withhold from living is to die; the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Anais Nin

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.
Ernest Hemingway

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Epicurus