“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” - Bertrand Russell (from “In Praise of Idleness”)
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.” - George Bernard Shaw
“If a thing is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing badly.” - G. K. Chesterton
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” - Jessica Hische
“It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.” - Claude Bernard
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” - Pablo Picasso
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller
“The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.” - J. Harold Wilkins
“A person hears only what they understand.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“When you accept who you really are, your arguments with others cease.” - Paul Ferrini
“Self worth cannot be verfied by others” - Wayne W Dyer
“My commitment is to truth, not consistency.” - Gandhi
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” - Wayne Dyer
“Beauty is a consequential thing, a product of solving problems correctly.” - Joseph Esherick
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” - G. K. Chesterton
“Belief is not merely an idea that the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind”. - Robert Bolt
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” - Erica Jong
“I use memories but I do not allow memories to use me.” - Shiva Sutras
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.” - Galileo Galilei
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is not that he is ignorant, it is that so much of what he knows is not true.” - Mark Twain
“By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
“Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.” - Robert Allen
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible.” - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
“That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.” - George Boole, The Laws of Thought
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” - John Stuart Mill
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