100 exceptional quotes and aphorisms, that is 100 distinguished, eminent, excellent, famous, special, great and magnificent quotes chosen by Carl William Brown.
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.
Francis Bacon
Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them.
Charles Bukowski
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that this planet is being used by other planets as the madhouse of the universe.
George Bernard Shaw
Little things have their importance: it is always for little things that we get lost.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books weigh a lot: yet those who feed on them, and put them in their bodies, live among the clouds.
Luigi Pirandello
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.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Thanks to language, humans have developed their knowledge and at the same time have also magnified their stupidity.
Carl William Brown
At the heart of every aphorism, no matter how new or even paradoxical it may seem, beats an ancient truth.
Arthur Schnitzler
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.
Henry James
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.
Nick Cave
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.)
Lucrezio
Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.
Natasha Munson
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.
George V. Higgins
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
Arundhati Roy
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
To my muses. I like people who don’t like things easily, if they dislike them, even better!
Carl William Brown
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.
William Shakespeare
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.
Charles Hank Bukowski
Considering ourselves experts often turns us into idiots.
Oliver Burkeman
Communicate. Even when it’s uncomfortable or uneasy. One of the best ways to heal, is simply getting everything out.
Anonymous
This is only one of impostorism’s frustrating ironies. Another is that true frauds and idiots rarely seem to experience it.
Oliver Burkeman
Unfortunately, we were brought into the world without any guarantees and with a rather limited understanding of total quality.
Carl William Brown
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
If you’re in a state of confidence and positive expectancy, the decisions, you make will be quite different than if you’re feeling vulnerable and fearful.
Anthony Robbins
I like to define medicine as a mix of art, magic, science and theft.
Carl William Brown
Make sure you have financial intelligence… I don’t care if you have money or you don’t have money… you need to go and study finance no matter what.
Daymond John
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.
Umberto Veronesi
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
Noam Chomsky
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!
Carl William Brown
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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
From a certain point onwards there is no return. This is the point to reach.
Franz Kafka
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.
Bertrand Russell
You can’t overestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Charles Bukowski
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.
Carl William Brown
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.
George Bernard Shaw
No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies.
Osho
Having your head in the clouds is very comfortable, it allows you to meet only people who know how to fly.
Alda Merini
An old love is like a grain of sand, in an eye, that always torments us.
Voltaire
In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.
Osho
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Now all food is getting more and more disgusting, enough, I’ve decided, from now on I will feed myself with chlorophyll photosynthesis!
Carl William Brown
No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Privacy is power. People cannot destroy what they do not know.
Anonymous
It’s 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.
Ian Cassel
The ability to cut a loss while it’s small is a core trading skill.
Steve Burns
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.
Paul J Meyer
Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Roger Staubach
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.
Carl William Brown
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
Jeff Merkley
No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
Jesse Livermore
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Do not do good if you do not have the strength to bear ingratitude.
Confucius
You will know great pain and in pain you will be happy. Here is my teaching: in pain seek happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
Life is a pill that no one can swallow unless it is golden.
Samuel Johnson
To win a battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.
Miyamoto Musashi
Life goes on loving those who do not love us and being loved by those we will never love.
Charles Bukowski
What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you.
Marcus Aurelius
Time forbids you to go back and change the beginning, but you can proceed further on and try to change the ending.
Carl William Brown
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Agatha Christie
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
Isaac Newton
Our memories are as meaningless to others as our lives are.
Carl William Brown
Personal finance is only 20% head knowledge. It’s 80% behavior!
Dave Ramsey
If they are wise don’t quarrel with them, if they are fools, ignore them.
Epictetus
At the heart of life itself the experience of death occurs. Media vita in morte sumus.
Epicuro
No mortal will ever pass through life completely free from pain, each always pays his price for life.
Aeschylus
The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.
Carl G. Jung
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
Jules Verne
If it stays, It is love. If it ends, It’s a love story. If it never begins, It poetry.
Nichomachus
Love whoever loves you. Do not love whoever flees you, love that heart that pines for you. It is not he who loves you who tells you he loves you, but he who looks and is silent.
William Shakespeare
Death, memory, memories, these are the three fundamental key words of all human art.
Carl William Brown
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole France
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Ayn Rand
The great are fragile, the idiots are not.
Paolo Crepet
The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.
Marty Schwartz
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
Mark Twain
I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful; In every one of these no man is free…
William Shakespeare
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
Rudyard Kipling
The right to insult is the right of a free man.
Voltaire
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
Some people are right, you don’t need to be educated to vegetate.
Carl William Brown
Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
Isaac Asimov
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Goethe
Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of never trying.
Epictetus
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell!
Victor Hugo
When a law is unjust, the right thing is not to obey it.
Voltaire
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Immanuel Kant
The end of law is, not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
John Locke
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
Inspirational quote
When the cat and the mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
Persian proverb
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