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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." Sir Francis Bacon 4.9412 average rating Rate this Quote
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." Bertie Forbes 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe." Henry Anatole Grunwald 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." Václav Havel 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route." Robert Green Ingersoll Rate this Quote
"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today." Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Rate this Quote
"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals." Václav Havel 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." Douglas Noel Adams 4.2353 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does." Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Rate this Quote
"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does." Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Rate this Quote
"I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness; they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage; and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." Jerrold Mundis Rate this Quote
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity." M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher Rate this Quote
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." Albert Einstein 3.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." Joseph Addison 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." Jane Austen 4.9091 average rating Rate this Quote
"I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown." Kathe Kolliqitz 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." David Mohler Rate this Quote
"I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Rate this Quote
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