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"We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin "Family and Politics"

Happiness

Love

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God."

Rabindranath Tagore

Happiness

Human

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Truth is no road to fortune."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques

Richness and Money

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago"

Human

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

Francis Bacon

Happiness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Hubert Humphrey

Authority, Government

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."

Anatol France "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard"

Work and Laziness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Offer forgiveness not for their sake, but for your own health."

Tristan J. Loo

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop "The Fox and the Goat"

Trust

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Ernest Rutherford

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One good thing about my computer: it never asks why."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Optimism and Hope

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."

Graham Greene

Youth and Age

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."

Samuel Lover

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."

Larry Gelbart

Wit and Humor

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When we can't dream any longer we die."

Emma Goldman

Dreams and Desires

Life and Death

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

God and Religion

Nature and Animals