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#1

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#2

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#3

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

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#4

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#5

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge

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#6

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking

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#7

“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: opinions, philosophy

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#8

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: anger

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#9

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#10

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: patriotism

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#11

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#12

“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”
― Schopenhauer, Arthur, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

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#13

“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

tags: manners, politeness, rudeness

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“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality

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“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animals, cruelty, goodness

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#16

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: inspirational

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#17

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

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#18

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

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#19

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#20

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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#21

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: animal-rights, animals, murder, vegetarianism

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#22

“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#23

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: democracy, elections, government, political-science, politics-observation, politics-science, politicsics, power, responsibility

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#24

“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#25

“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: world-war-i, world-war-one

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#26

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: lies

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#27

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: politics

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#28

“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#29

“Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#30

“Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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