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  • #1
    George R.R. Martin
    “The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #2
    Lou Holtz
    “Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #3
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #6
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #7
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • #8
    Euripides
    “The wisest men follow their own direction.”
    Euripides
    tags: wise

  • #9
    Lin Yutang
    “Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”
    Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

  • #10
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    John Lennon

  • #11
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi

  • #13
    John Green
    “Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “silence is the language of god,
    all else is poor translation.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #17
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #18
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #19
    Steve  Martin
    “Be so good they can't ignore you.”
    Steve Martin

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #21
    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    Nicholas Klein



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