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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley Maclaine
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is governed more by appearance than realities, so it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as it is to know it.
Unknown
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
Stacy Shaw
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.
Jesus Christ
They talk most who have the least to say.
Mathew Prior
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
Plato
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach teach education.
Nicolas Martin
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
To "be" means to be related.
Alfred Korzybski
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
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