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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #3
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #15
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

  • #16
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #19
    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #20
    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

  • #21
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #22
    Bertrand Russell
    “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #23
    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    Plato

  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
    Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

  • #25
    Confucius
    “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
    Confucius

  • #26
    Norton Juster
    “Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #27
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #28
    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

  • #29
    Hans Urs von Balthasar
    “What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
    Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

  • #30
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    Epictetus



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