Quotations by Famous People

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
— Abraham Lincoln

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- 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

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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
— Bill Gates

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
- Christian D. Larson

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
- Dostoevsky

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams

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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it "The Present".
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
- George Bernard Shaw

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
- George Orwell

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- G.K. Chesterton

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder...
- Henry David Thoreau

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
- Henry Miller

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

Sometimes we have to choose between what is right and what is easy - Albus Dumbledore
— J.K. Rowling

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill

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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
- Kipling

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I thought it was impossible too before I did it.
- Lance Armstrong

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You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

Buy land. They've stopped making it.
- Mark Twain

I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.
- Mark Twain

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.
— Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
— Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
— Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
— Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
— Maya Angelou

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Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence win championships.
- Michael Jordan

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A life not lived for others is not a life.
- Mother Teresa

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Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
— Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
— Oscar Wilde

Be Yourself; everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

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To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is about turning stones into milestones.
- Sachin Tendulkar

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas Edison

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson


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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Victor Hugo

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
- Victor Hugo

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.
- Voltaire

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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
- William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
- Winston Churchill

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When the student is ready, the master appears.
- Buddhist Proverb

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

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