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#1

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.”
― Rudyard Kipling

#2

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”
― Edgar Watson Howe

tags: inspirational, secrets, wisdom

14 likes

#3

“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”
― E.W. Howe

10 likes

#4

“A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.”
― Edgar Watson Howe

4 likes

#5

“The most destructive criticism is indifference.”
― E.W. Howe

5 likes

#6

“If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.”
― Edgar Watson Howe

3 likes

#7

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.”
― E.W. Howe, A man Story

1 likes

#8

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
― Edgar Watson Howe

tags: friendship

237 likes

#9

“One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.”
― Edgar Watson Howe

tags: humor, women

38 likes

#10

“When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.”
― Edgar Watson Howe

22 likes

#11

“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”
― Galileo Galilei

20 likes

#12

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
― Galileo

tags: teaching, wisdom

684 likes

#13

“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe”
― Galileo Galilei

100 likes

#14

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

tags: inspirational

2295 likes

#15

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei

tags: dissent, independent-thought, reasoning, science, scientific-method, truth-telling

381 likes

#16

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship

2210 likes

#17

“... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...”
― Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First

tags: temptation, the-devil

278 likes

#18

“I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.”
― Mark Twain

3 likes

#19

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

2576 likes

#20

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

tags: wisdom

6111 likes

#21

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

tags: education, inspirational, life, perseverance

3556 likes

#22

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

tags: beauty, everything, seeing

3355 likes

#23

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius