Best memorable quotes, more than 100 remarkable, outstanding and extraordinary great quotes and aphorisms never to be forgotten in life to be a little wiser, edited by Carl William Brown.
History is, indeed, little more than the register of the “crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Hegel
True paradises are paradises we have lost.
Marcel Proust
What we frankly give, forever is our own.
George Granville
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
Persian Proverb
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.
Plato
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
You will always have those only riches that you have donated.
Marco Valerio Marziale
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Never understimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Geroge Carlin
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Voltaire
Universe doesn’t even know that you exist, so relax.
Carl William Brown
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
William Shakespeare
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.
Nietzsche
A great man is hard on himself, a small man is hard on others.
Lao Tzu
The jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath Tagore
It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so m uch influence.
Geroge Orwell
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.
Carl William Brown
Pride and poverty don’t get along, but often live together.
Proverb
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Soren Kierkegaard
We neede not speak so much of love, al books are ful of love, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Love.
John Florio
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarsity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Trumane Capote
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
John Keats
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
Your progress in life begins in your own mind and ends in the same place.
Napoleon Hill
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Paul Kark Feyerabend
Never follow a leader who is more in love with power than people.
Native American Proverb
Give instructions only to those people who seek knowledge after they have discovered their ignorance.
Confucius
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Epicurus
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
Giordano Bruno
I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.
Ferdinand Magellan
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
Bob Marley
The light of past discovery draws me forward. Its shining light guides me to the glory of exploration.
Francis Drake
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare
You can kill a man but you can’t kìll an idea.
Sophocles
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
The aim of argument should not be victory, but progress.
Karl Popper
Never undervalue your enemies, especially if they are stupid.
Carl William Brown
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in q uiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal
The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But the silence of good people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith
Some people boast that they do not read and perhaps they are right, to vegetate you do not need to learn.
Carl William Brown
Ever tried. Ever failde. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
To be a success, you must engage in study time, thinking time, planning time, daily.
Napoleon Hill
I have been a seeker, and still I am; but I stopped asking the books, and the stars. I started listening the teaching of my soul.
Rumi
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Baruch Spinoza
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Democritus
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
Juvenal
I was born in hell – and look to it, for some of you shall be my father.
Christopher Marlowe
Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?
Carl William Brown
There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.
Zhuge Liang
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Albert Einstein
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
William Blake
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya Angelou
I was born to eradicate three extreme evils: tyranny, sophistry, and hypocrisy.
Tommaso Campanella
I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.
Mark Twain
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.
Mae West
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Victor Hugo
Every minute more imbeciles than capable people are born, and you know, time runs inexorably and does never stop, with the future troubles and concerns…
Carl William Brown
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo Da Vinci
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
It takes self-discipline to control your thoughts and focus them on a problem until it is solved.
Napoleon Hill
The tragic and comic forces of existence can only give a humorous result.
Carl William Brown
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
Mary Shelley
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
Plotinus
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Epictetus
Give a man everything he wants and at that moment, everything will not be enough.
Immanuel Kant
There is nothing permanent, except change.
Heraclitus
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
Aristotle
Don’t chase a woman’s form night and day, or you’ll soon become blind and deaf.
The Quran
You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don’t forget to learn a lot of all that goes.
Carl William Brown
Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.
Albert Einstein
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Edmund Burke
Self-education is, I firmily believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.
Thomas Paine
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
We fight against three giants, my dear Sancho: “injustice, fear, and ignorance.”
Miguel de Cervantes
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom… comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton Chekhov
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
Buddha
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