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#1

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

tags: opportunity

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#2

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

tags: fear, hesitation, hope, life, tragedy

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#3

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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#4

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#5

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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#6

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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#7

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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#8

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: human-nature, people, truth

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#9

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy

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#10

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: accusations, bitter, blind-to-truth, character, character-assassination, civil-rights, conscience, creator, criticism, deceased-people, destroy, entertainment, evidence, falsely-accused, falsely-destroyed, god, gossip, gossip-quotes, gossiping, guilt-by-trial, guilty, guilty-conscience, history, hung-jury, ignorance, inestigators, innocence, innocent, integrity, investigate, judging, judging-actions, judging-others, judicial-system, jury-hearing, justice, knowledge, lamp, lamps, law, law-and-order, lie, light, lying, media, media-distortion, misjudge, misjudged, misjudgment, opinion, opinions-of-others, politics, popular-opinion, press, proof, recognize-truth, repuation-mangement, reputation, rumors, rumours, seek, seek-truth, society, tangerines, telling-the-truth, thinking, trial, trust-your-heart, truth, truth-and-justice, truth-telling, witness, woman, women

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#11

“I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all.”
― Leonora Carrington, Down Below

tags: fragmentation, judging-others

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#12

“The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.”
― John Mark Green

tags: hypocrisy, hypocrites, hypocrites-judge, judging-others, judgmental, scream, skeletons-in-the-closet

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#13

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: blaming, blaming-others, brokenness, disorders, hatred, high-standards, hypocrisy, ignoring, illness, issues, judgement, judging-others, learning, narcissistic, no-conscience, no-filter, paranoia, poor-character, problems, realization, respecting-others, self-absorbed, self-abuse, self-realization, trust, trustworthy

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#14

“Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.”
― Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version

tags: brownell-landrum, duet-stories, judging, judging-others, judgment, misjudgment, repercussions, surprises

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#15

“Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

tags: dragons, good-judgment, judge, judging, judging-others, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, slaying-dragons

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#16

“On Maturity

"You bring people down so that you can rise up, you obviously do not know how to soar." – To the people who point their fingers to others so to hide their deficiencies”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Aether

tags: accusing-finger, backstabbers, big-mouth, judging-others, judgmental-people, maturity-quotes, pointing-fingers, stepping-over-people

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#17

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

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#18

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#19

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17361 likes

#20

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

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#21

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11856 likes

#22

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#23

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

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#24

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#25

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: drama, humor, plays

6282 likes

#26

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

5141 likes

#27

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#28

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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#29

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor

3751 likes

#30

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: children, parents

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