“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
— Victor Hugo
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“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
“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”
— Edward R. Murrow
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
— Carl Jung
“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“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...
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
— Doris Lessing
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”
— Erich Fromm
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
— Charles Bukowski
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours.”
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“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”
— Karl Popper
“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
— Will Durant