“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
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“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”
Will Rogers
“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
Confucius
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
Stephen Hawking
“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
Samuel Johnson
“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.”
“If youth knew; if age could.”
Sigmund Freud
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”
Ray Bradbury
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
Henry Ford
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
Thomas J. Watson
“The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
Lao Tzu
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To think is to practice brain chemistry.”
Deepak Chopra
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
Douglas Adams
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
Bruce Lee
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill