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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
    2739 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dreams, hope
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
    10764 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92160 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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
    71688 likes

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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64642 likes

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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10540 likes

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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
    6030 likes

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    S.E. Hinton
    “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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    S.E. Hinton
    “I´d rather have anybody´s hate than their pity”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
    tags: hate, pity
    100 likes

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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: honesty, lies, truth
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
    720 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?

    There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: truth
    585 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
    19850 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, living, philosophy, women
    4922 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “We are the hollow men
    We are the stuffed men
    Leaning together
    Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
    Our dried voices, when
    We whisper together
    Are quiet and meaningless
    As wind in dry grass
    Or rats' feet over broken glass
    In our dry cellar
    Shape without form, shade without colour,
    Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

    - The Hollow Men”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925
    tags: philosophy, poetry
    540 likes

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    George Carlin
    “I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: descartes, humor, philosophy, subjectivity
    513 likes

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    David Hume
    “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
    ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
    tags: errors, philosophy, religion
    445 likes

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    Sophocles
    “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: philosophy
    446 likes

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    Ayn Rand
    “I am, therefore I'll think.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
    378 likes



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