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100 very brilliant quotes

100 very brilliant quotes

100 very brilliant quotes
100 very brilliant quotes

100 very brilliant quotes, a collection of very famous aphorisms by great authors of all time to give you some deep words of wisdom for your important life.

Men are almost as good to the dead as they are wicked to the living.
Anonymous

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Walter Lippmann

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

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

Miserable is that love that needs words to express itself.
Carl William Brown

Education isn’t something you can finish.
Isaac Asimov

Knowing yourself is The best fighterthe beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Blaise Pascal

To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country.
Rabindranath Tagore

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Montesquieu

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Zeno of Citium

Politics has no relation to morality.
Niccolò Macchiavelli

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
Heinrich Mann

No artist tolerates reality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In humorous religion, contrary to other cults, one can sometimes also blaspheme, certainly not in public, but only when one is praying in solitude.
Carl William Brown

A sadist. A paranoid psychopath with a delusion of greatness and overvalued ideas. Pathological liar. Self esteem is inadequate. Intelligence is low. His personality is deteriorating rapidly. Lives in a parallel world, detached from reality, completely out of touch with reality. He doesn’t understand her.
Valery Novodvorska

He (Paracelsus) was the first man to write scientific books in the language of common people, so that all could read them.
Manly P. Hall

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
Isaac Asimov

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Charles Addams

Insisting on calling Tsar, the miserable Putrid, clearly highlights the slavish imbecility of many journalists around the world, and certainly makes them more morons than what the great Shakespeare would rightly have called, “a poor capocchia”.
Carl William Brown

Carl Jung brilliant quote
Carl Jung brilliant quote

Better to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
William Shakespeare

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
Baruch Spinoza

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
George Orwell

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes

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

DA Datta, DA Dayadhvam, DA Damyata, shantih, shantih, shantih! (Give, sympathize, control, peace, peace, peace).
T.S. Eliot

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Quote me as saying I said that, and you may be sure of having the authorship of it.
Samuel Johnson

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver.
Lev Tolstoy

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

The painful sarcastic bitter parable of life. At the beginning you are born alone and in the end you will die alone, but in the middle you are going to meet an incredible number of blighter!
Carl William Brown

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
William Wordsworth

You can also commit injustice, by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius

The happiest people
The happiest people

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Wells

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can’t tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think.
Frida Khalo

Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
William Wordsworth

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
Marcus Aurelius

It is better to die misunderstood than to spend your life explaining yourself.
Carl William Brown

If this science, which will bring great benefits to man, will not help man to understand himself, it will end up turning against man.
Giordano Bruno

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, because it trains people what to think.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Unfortunately our planet is more and more full of increasingly empty men, to quote Eliot, shapeless figures, colorless shadows, not souls, lost and violent, but only, empty men, stuffed men, created by the taxidermists of stupidity.
Carl William Brown

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

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Quote me as saying I said that, and you may be sure of having the authorship of it.
Samuel Johnson

Tell me what you know, and I shall know what manner of person you are, or if you do not know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Saadi

Ci sono delle persone così povere che l’unica cosa che hanno sono i soldi.
Madre Teresa di Calcutta

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van Gogh

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Soren Kierkegaard

You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.
Sophocles

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

Humor is next to Godliness.
Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

La tradizione è la componente statica della cultura, ma l’essere umnano è una macchina termodinamica fatta per muoversi.
Carl William Brown

Every man is a creature of the age in which lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of time.
Voltaire

Il conflitto tra Russia e Ukraina è una guerra fratricida che non dimostra altro che l’imbecillità delle sue cause e del suo principale fautore, ovvero il penoso presidente Putrid.
Carl William Brown

Nietzsche brilliant quote
Nietzsche brilliant quote

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Zeno of Citium

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya

So you see, the universe is made up by protons, electrons, neutrons and morons.
Anonymous

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Michel de Montaigne

If you can laugh at yourself, then there are few things you couldn’t laugh at.
Carl William Brown

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent – people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Erich Fromm

How could you rise anew, if you have not first became ashes.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Many are helpful, none are essential, but most are of little use at all.
Carl William Brown

But if the radiant light that once shone is now forever removed from my gaze, if nothing can cause the grass to renew its splendor and revive the flower, we will not sleep over the baleful fate, but even more steadfast in chest we will enjoy what is left.
William Wordsworth

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Francis Bacon

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known ignorance.
Chuang Tzu

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, and beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Leo Tolstoy

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

Life is such a great teacher that when you don’t learn a lesson, It will repeat it.
Anonymous

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Seneca

The challenges you face introduce you to your strengths.
Epictetus

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Sun Tzu

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
Helen Keller

The first and main erogenous zone is the mind.
Richard Alan Miller

If everyone is thinking alike, than someone isn’t thinking.
Gen. Geroge Patton

The best fighter
The best fighter

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Voltaire

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
Mark Twain

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

What is the difference between a convinced and a deceived? None, if he has been well deceived.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.
Albert Camus

Don’t worry about siding for or against the majority. Worry about taking up any of their irrational beliefs.
Marcus Aurelius

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven, unless its roots reach down to hell.
Carl Jung

The worst kind of pain do not come from your enemies, but from the people who you trust and love.
Anonymous

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