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1. "The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

Graham Greene

2. "An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

3. "Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

4. "Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

5. "Mostly only loss teaches us about the value of things."

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit"

6. "Bargain - anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."

Kin Hubbard

7. "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Michel de Montaigne

8. "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

Mark Twain

9. "No ideas and the ability to express them? That's a journalist."

Karl Kraus

10. "Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

11. "If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

12. "Put your hand on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Woman and Man

13. "You should be the change that you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

14. "Advice, n. The smallest current coin."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

15. "Let no one drive you so low as to hate him."

Martin Luther King

16. "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

Elbert Green Hubbard

17. "Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Trust

18. "Saying is one thing and doing is another."

Michel de Montaigne

19. "Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

Will Rogers

20. "To define is to limit."

Oscar Wilde

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21. "Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

22. "Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

23. "Anything done for another is done for oneself."

John Paul II

24. "Advertising is legalized lying."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

25. "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

26. "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

Khalil Gibran

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

27. "Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Art and Culture

28. "Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them."

Peter Ustinov

29. "No one can resist an idea whose time has come."

Victor Hugo

30. "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts."

Anon.

31. "Twice, adv. Once too often."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

32. "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

33. "Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."

Joseph Joubert

34. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."

Albert Einstein

35. "My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."

Karl Kraus

36. "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

Peter Ustinov

37. "Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and fan a fire."

François de La Rochefoucauld

38. "Never cut what you can untie."

Joseph Joubert

39. "The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince"

40. "I don`t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."

William Somerset Maugham

41. "Nothing is more certain than the certainty of being uncertain."

Anon.

42. "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy."

Anon.

Quotations about: Authority, Government

43. "Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones."

François de La Rochefoucauld

44. "What a lot of things there are a man can do without."

Socrates

45. "An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

Henry Louis Mencken

46. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Carl Gustav Jung

47. "The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls."

John Paul II

48. "The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed."

Albert Schweitzer

49. "Dead fish go with the flow... but I'm not dead yet."

Anon.

50. "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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