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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Attachment leads to suffering.”
― Buddha

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
― Buddha

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
― Buddha

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
― Socrates

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
― Socrates

“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
― Diogenes

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

“True love is born from understanding.”
― The Buddha

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

“What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.”
― Buddha

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
― Thomas A. Edison