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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. - William Ellery Channing

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - C. S. Lewis

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. - Keith Haring

Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself. ~ Robin Williams

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. - C. S. Lewis

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. - Aristotle

“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.” — Jean de La Fontaine

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anything you truly want must be worth fighting for.”

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion. - Gustave Flaubert

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

He that hath no cross deserves no crown. - Francis Quarles

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce

Error is always more busy than truth. - Hosea Ballou

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

*points up* Truth


“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

“What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.”
― C. S. Lewis

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”
― Colleen Hoover

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God. - Antoni Gaudi

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson