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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
    3171 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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
    tags: frienship, success
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: morality, philosophy
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    Rollo May
    “It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
    ― Rollo May
    tags: philosophy
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The menu is not the meal.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words
    775 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Maurice Switzer
    “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
    44320 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: books, honesty, wisdom
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: wisdom
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: lincoln, mother, wisdom
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    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: wisdom
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    Confucius
    “The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?”
    ― Confucius
    tags: tao, wisdom, zen
    570 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Woody Allen
    “God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: god, humor, mankind, silence
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
    13074 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
    5521 likes



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