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\"Best<\/a>
Best memorable quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Best memorable quotes, more than 100 remarkable, outstanding and extraordinary great quotes and aphorisms never to be forgotten in life to be a little wiser, 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

History is, indeed, little more than the register of the “crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it.<\/span>
\nGeorg Hegel<\/span><\/p>\n

True paradises are paradises we have lost.<\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.<\/span>
\nPersian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another\u2019s world.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.<\/span>
\nSeneca<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.<\/span>
\nAlexis Carrel<\/span><\/p>\n

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. <\/span>
\nThomas A. Edison<\/span><\/p>\n

Never understimate the power of stupid people in large groups.<\/span>
\nGeroge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Einstein<\/a>
Einstein about stupidity, fear and greed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.<\/span>
\nAustin Phelps<\/span><\/p>\n

The more a man knows, the less he talks.<\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Universe doesn\u2019t even know that you exist, so relax.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.<\/span>
\nNietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

A great man is hard on himself, a small man is hard on others.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

The jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. <\/span>
\nRobert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.<\/span>
\nRabindranath Tagore<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so m uch influence.<\/span>
\nGeroge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Pride and poverty don’t get along, but often live together. <\/span>
\nProverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Marcus<\/a>
Marcus Aurelius quote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

We neede not speak so much of love, al books are ful of love, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Love.<\/span>
\nJohn Florio<\/span><\/p>\n

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarsity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.<\/span>
\nTrumane Capote<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.<\/span>
\nJohn Keats<\/span><\/p>\n

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Your progress in life begins in your own mind and ends in the same place.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.<\/span>
\nPlato<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. <\/span>
\nPaul Kark Feyerabend<\/span><\/p>\n

Never follow a leader who is more in love with power than people.<\/span>
\nNative American Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Give instructions only to those people who seek knowledge after they have discovered their ignorance.<\/span>
\nConfucius<\/span><\/p>\n

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Euripides<\/a>
Euripides quote on necessity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.<\/span>
\nFerdinand Magellan<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.<\/span>
\nBob Marley<\/span><\/p>\n

The light of past discovery draws me forward. Its shining light guides me to the glory of exploration.<\/span>
\nFrancis Drake<\/span><\/p>\n

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

Expectation is the root of all heartache.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

You can kill a man but you can\u2019t k\u00ecll an idea.<\/span>
\nSophocles<\/span><\/p>\n

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of argument should not be victory, but progress.<\/span>
\nKarl Popper<\/span><\/p>\n

Never undervalue your enemies, especially if they are stupid. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.<\/span>
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn\u2019t learn something from him.<\/span>
\nGalileo Galilei<\/span><\/p>\n

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in q uiet room alone.<\/span>
\nBlaise Pascal<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Plato<\/a>
Plato quote on empathy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But the silence of good people.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Bonaparte<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.<\/span>
\nMarcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.<\/span>
\nAdam Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people boast that they do not read and perhaps they are right, to vegetate you do not need to learn.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever tried. Ever failde. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.<\/span>
\nSamuel Beckett<\/span><\/p>\n

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.<\/span>
\nMichel de Montaigne<\/span><\/p>\n

To be a success, you must engage in study time, thinking time, planning time, daily.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been a seeker, and still I am; but I stopped asking the books, and the stars. I started listening the teaching of my soul.<\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.<\/span>
\nBaruch Spinoza<\/span><\/p>\n

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.<\/span>
\nDemocritus<\/span><\/p>\n

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.<\/span>
\nJuvenal<\/span><\/p>\n

I was born in hell – and look to it, for some of you shall be my father.<\/span>
\nChristopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead? <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bob<\/a>
Bob Marley quote on money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.<\/span>
\nZhuge Liang<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

I was born to eradicate three extreme evils: tyranny, sophistry, and hypocrisy.<\/span>
\nTommaso Campanella<\/span><\/p>\n

I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet. <\/span>
\nMae West<\/span><\/p>\n

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

Every minute more imbeciles than capable people are born, and you know, time runs inexorably and does never stop, with the future troubles and concerns…<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.<\/span>
\nG.K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.<\/span>
\nLeonardo Da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

All the world\u2019s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.<\/span>
\nBen Jonson<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sophocles<\/a>
Sophocles quotes on ideas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

It takes self-discipline to control your thoughts and focus them on a problem until it is solved.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Hill<\/span><\/p>\n

The tragic and comic forces of existence can only give a humorous result.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.<\/span>
\nMary Shelley<\/span><\/p>\n

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. <\/span>
\nJohn Oliver Hobbes<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.<\/span>
\nPlotinus<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.<\/span>
\nJames Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.<\/span>
\nEpictetus<\/span><\/p>\n

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment, everything will not be enough.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing permanent, except change.<\/span>
\nHeraclitus<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t chase a woman’s form night and day, or you’ll soon become blind and deaf.<\/span>
\nThe Quran<\/span><\/p>\n

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don’t forget to learn a lot of all that goes. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.<\/span>
\nStephen R. Covey<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Carl<\/a>
Carl William Brown quote on the Universe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.<\/span>
\nPlutarch<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-education is, I firmily believe, the only kind of education there is.<\/span>
\nIsaac Asimov<\/span><\/p>\n

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. <\/span>
\nCharles Caleb Colton<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.<\/span>
\nZora Neale Hurston<\/span><\/p>\n

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

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

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