Quotes - Vaishnavi (New Delhi, 07, India) Showing 1-30 of 126

#1

“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

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#2

“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

tags: music

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#3

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#4

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

tags: apothegm, common-sense

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#5

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#6

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

tags: books, reading

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#7

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

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#8

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

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#9

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
― Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire

tags: faith, reason

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#10

“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
― Voltaire

tags: books

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#11

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
― Voltaire

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#12

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
― Voltaire

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#13

“I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
― Voltaire, Candide

tags: candide, voltaire

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#14

“I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.”
― Voltaire

tags: books

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#15

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
― Voltaire

tags: success

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#16

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”
― Voltaire

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#17

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
― Voltaire

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#18

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”
― Voltaire

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#19

“Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
― voltaire

tags: family, voltaire

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#20

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
― Voltaire

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#21

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#22

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#23

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

tags: music

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#24

“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: owen-armstrong

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#25

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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#26

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: loneliness, music, refuge

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#27

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

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#28

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#29