"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

Emma Goldman

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

John Steinbeck

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Various

"The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."

Mahatma Gandhi

Love

Youth and Age

"The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Wisdom and Stupidity

"The future is much like the present, only longer."

Dan Quisenberry

Time and Passing

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Truth and Falsity

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Napoleon Hill

Success and Fame

Various

"Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert."

Henry Miller "Tropic of Cancer"

Art and Culture

"Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us."

Henry Fielding

Sin and Conscience

"Conscience is a man's compass."

Vincent Van Gogh

Sin and Conscience

"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."

Cesare Pavese "The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950"

Art and Culture

Richness and Money

"Miss, n.: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market."

Ambrose Bierce

Woman and Man

"In time of war, the devil makes more room in hell."

German Proverbs

Good and Evil

Peace and War

"Gravity always wins."

Dolly Parton

Various

"Cause and effect, the chancellors of God."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Essays"

Destiny and Fate

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Marcel Proust

Wisdom and Stupidity

"One enemy is too much."

George Herbert

Friendship and Hostility

"Beggars cant be choosers."

English Proverbs

Richness and Money

"Happiness consists of three things: someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."

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Happiness

Sin and Conscience

Work and Laziness

"A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God."

Donald Knuth

Science and Technology

"Error is the price we pay for progress."

Alfred North Whitehead

Defeates and Mistakes

Knowledge, Ignorance

"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it."

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Various

"Biography should be written by an acute enemy."

Arthur Balfour

Friendship and Hostility

Various

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

Andrew Carnegie

Manners and Ethics

Youth and Age

"To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different"; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Happiness

Woman and Man

"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Anita Brookner

Justice

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Love

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Joyce Brothers

Success and Fame

"Plans are useless but planning is indispensable."

Dwight David Eisenhower

Various

"Where friendship is, there is one's homeland."

Voltaire

Friendship and Hostility

"I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others."

Confucius

Success and Fame

"It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."

Beatrice Stella Campbell (Mrs Patrick Campbell)

Manners and Ethics

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams

Reality and Imagination

Various

"Everyone has the same God; only people differ."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

God and Religion

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

André Gide

Art and Culture

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

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Dreams and Desires

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Albert Einstein

Peace and War

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

Voltaire

God and Religion

"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Charlie Chaplin

History and Nations

"Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one."

Elbert Green Hubbard "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Various

"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Marriage

"Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of."

Josh Billings

Life and Death

"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joseph Joubert

Truth and Falsity

"I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies hands - after all, one must start somewhere."

Sacha Guitry

Manners and Ethics

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

Brian Tracy

Power and Weakness

Talent and Genius

"Conviction is the conscience of intellect."

Chamfort

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

"Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness."

G. I. Gurdjieff

God and Religion

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

George Bernard Shaw

Various