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“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”
― Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
― José Saramago, The Double

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

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
― John Dewey

“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works. No one to my mind lets humanity down quite so much as those who study philosophy as if it were a sort of commercial skill and then proceed to live in a quite different manner from the way they tell other people to live.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all; and if we are prepared in loftiness of mind to pass beyond the narrow confines of human weakness, there is a long period of time through which we can roam.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Authority forgets a dying king”
― Alfred Tennyson

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War