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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I would rather read the best 100 books over and over again until I absorb them rather than read all the books”
― Naval Ravikant

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group…then to hell with them.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.”
― John Marsden, Tomorrow, When the War Began

“A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.”
― Frank Westheimer

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind”
― Martin H. Fischer

“Break down the problem into smaller pieces and start dealing with them one at a time, piece by piece. The smaller the piece, the easier it will be to evaluate it individually and come up with the solution. You can also try solving one problem for one day.”
― Dan Richards, Critical Thinking: 8 Surprisingly Effective Ways To Improve Critical Thinking Skills. Think Fast, Smart and Clear

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

“A bad plan is better than no plan, and the most important quality of any plan is the flexibility to change.”
― Judson L Moore, Exponential Happiness: How to identify and pursue life goals starting at a young age

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Truth is rarely writ in ink. It lives in nature.”
― Martin H. Fischer

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
― Warren Buffett

“If I were a Dr., I’d prescribe books. They can be just as powerful as drugs.”
― Shane Parrish

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson