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  • #1
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    Laurence J. Peter

  • #2
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #3
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

  • #4
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #5
    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    Plato

  • #6
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #7
    Jules Verne
    “I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”
    Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

  • #8
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #10
    Jane Yolen
    “They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.”
    Jane Yolen

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    A.A. Milne
    “One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #14
    A.A. Milne
    “If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #15
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #16
    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #17
    Elvis Costello
    “The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark. It scares you witless but with time you see things clear and stark”
    Elvis Costello

  • #18
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #19
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #20
    Louis Pasteur
    “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
    Louis Pasteur

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #23
    “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”
    John Adams



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