“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was t...

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir