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“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#2

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

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#3

“Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told.”
― Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

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#4

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning

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#5

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: habits

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#6

“If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

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#7

“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”
― Tacitus

tags: abuse, guilt, offence

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#8

“If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated, the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.”
― Voltaire

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#9

“Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment”
― George Meredith

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#10

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge

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#11

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#12

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired”
― Jonathan Swift

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#13

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
― Cesare Pavese

tags: life, memory

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#14

“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”
― William Hazlitt, Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims

tags: dissatisfaction, quarrel, self-criticism

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#15

“He who praises everybody, praises nobody.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#16

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#17

“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#18

“There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome”
― Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

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#19

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

tags: humor, misattributed-to-shakespeare, notoriety

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#20

“It is well for one to know more than he says”
― Plautus

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#21

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
― William James

tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom

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#22

“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious”
― Thomas Aquinas

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#23

“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality”
― Arnold Bennett

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#24

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
― Thomas Henry Huxley

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#25

“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
― Samuel Butler

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#26

“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: causality, error, intelligence, theories

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#27

“If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
― Charles de Montesquieu

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#28

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato

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#29

“If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.”
― André Maurois

tags: desire, discovery, greed, open-mindedness, reflection

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#30

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

tags: douglas-adams

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