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100 great quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

100 best quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors and writers edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown<\/a>, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese people visit this blog very often, but I earn neither a cent from China. Call it under-consumption core, call it frugality, call it “proudly stingy\u201d, but you could at least offer me a coffee<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aphorismus est sermo brevis, integrum sensum propositae rei scribens. <\/span>
\nIsidore de S\u00e9ville<\/span><\/p>\n

Me, poor man, my library was a dukedom large enough!… So, of his gentleness, knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me from my own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom!<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

In tristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

The path to paradise begins in hell.<\/span>
\nDante<\/span><\/p>\n

We fight against three giants, my dear Sancho: “injustice, fear, and ignorance.”
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Miguel de Cervantes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I want to imagine death as an affectionate mother who, while holding me to her breast, instead of giving me life, for ever will take it away.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Never accept an inferior position to anyone. It is the strongest spirit that wins, not the most expensive sword.<\/span>
\nMiyamoto Musashi<\/span><\/p>\n

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. <\/span>
\nZig Ziglar<\/span><\/p>\n

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Hegel<\/span><\/p>\n

All war is a symptom of man\u2019s failure as a thinking animal.<\/span>
\nJohn Steinbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.<\/span>
\nSigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is not free. You have to pay attention.<\/span>
\nRichard Feynman<\/span><\/p>\n

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.<\/span>
\nHarold Kushner<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.<\/span>
\nEpictetuts<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Honesty
Honesty is the best legacy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.<\/span>
\nNikola Tesla<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you stop learning, you start dying.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Universe doesn’t even know that you exist, so relax.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

What you are most interested in, that’s your religion.<\/span>
\nDavid Barrie<\/span><\/p>\n

If you love life, don\u2019t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.<\/span>
\nDavid Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

If you feel pain, you’re alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you’re a human being.<\/span>
\nLev Tolstoy<\/span><\/p>\n

Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.<\/span>
\nS\u00e9bastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort<\/span><\/p>\n

To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.<\/span>
\nJohn Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Smart people learn from everything and everyone; average people from their experiences; stupid people already have all the answers!<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Men usually take better care of their cars, shoes and clothes than of their earthily misfortune companions. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

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Smart people learn from everything and everyone; average people from their experiences; stupid people already have all the answers!<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?<\/span>
\nGeorge Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.<\/span>
\nMatthew Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

Showing off is the fool\u2019s idea of glory.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning that ultimately the greatest help is self-help; that there is no other help but self-help – doing one’s best, dedicating oneself wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens to have no end but is an on-going process.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a very fine line between \u2018hobby\u2019 and \u2018mental illness.<\/span>
\nDave Barry<\/span><\/p>\n

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.<\/span>
\nOkakura Kakuzo<\/span><\/p>\n

Wisdom\u2026 comes not from age, but from education and learning.<\/span>
\nAnton Chekhov<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pleasure in the job, put perfection in the work.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.<\/span>
\nMatthew Arnold<\/span><\/p>\n

If one had to worry about one’s actions in respect of other people’s ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.<\/span>
\nAleister Crowley<\/span><\/p>\n

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. <\/span>
\nThomas Stearns Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. <\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

The most intelligent recedes. The world domination of stupidity is based on this sad truth. <\/span>
\nMarie von Ebner-Eschenbach<\/span><\/p>\n

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. <\/span>
\nGeorge Lois<\/span><\/p>\n

Three things are needed to be happy: to be imbecile, to be selfish and to have good health. But if you miss the first, everything is over. <\/span>
\nGustave Flaubert<\/span><\/p>\n

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of the human existence. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Be nice to your siblings. They are the best link to you past and the people who likely to stick with you in the future.<\/span>
\nMary Schmich<\/span><\/p>\n

Every artist was first an amateur. <\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Failure Is Only the Opportunity More Intelligently To Begin Again. <\/span>
\nHenry Ford<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is not free. You have to pay attention.<\/span>
\nR. Feynman<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trading involves a lot of discomfort. We take losses, we miss trades, good trades turn into bad trades. Unless a trader learns to tolerate these things they will never succeed.<\/span>
\nAndrew Menaker<\/span><\/p>\n

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. <\/span>
\nDavid Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. <\/span>
\nCharles Lamb<\/span><\/p>\n

You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can beat one idiot with 40 facts.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

In my beginning is my end.<\/span>
\nT. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.<\/span>
\nT. S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of the human existence. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.<\/span>
\nSamurai Maxim<\/span><\/p>\n

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Control of mental conduct, not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai.<\/span>
\nJapanese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.<\/span>
\nTibetan Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.<\/span>
\nMiyamoto Musashi<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge is not free. You have to pay attention.<\/span>
\nR. Feynman<\/span><\/p>\n

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The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory. <\/span>
\nChinese proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

What we frankly give, forever is our own. <\/span>
\nGeorge Granville<\/span><\/p>\n

You will always have those only riches that you have donated.<\/span>
\nMarco Valerio Marziale<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.<\/span>
\nLeonardo da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

Master YOURSELF, because you will never master the markets.<\/span>
\nGlen Dahlen<\/span><\/p>\n

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.<\/span>
\nSuze Orman<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.<\/span>
\nCharles Caleb Colton<\/span><\/p>\n

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka<\/span><\/p>\n

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.<\/span>
\nAndrei Voznesensky<\/span><\/p>\n

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no sin except stupidity.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.<\/span>
\nKarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

No man is an Island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main\u2026 any man\u2019s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee!<\/span>
\nJohn Donne<\/span><\/p>\n

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.<\/span>
\nPaul Gauguin<\/span><\/p>\n

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate\u2019er it touches.<\/span>
\nPercy Bysshe Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother\u2019s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.<\/span>
\nCharlie Chaplin<\/span><\/p>\n

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