"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on philosophers and philosophy   

"Instinct is untaught ability."

Bain, Alexander on instinct
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new."

Aeschylus on leadership   

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

Ali, Muhammad on humility
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."

Luxemburg, Rosa on freedom
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"Far more numerous are those as such; who think too little and talk too much."

Dryden, John on thoughts and thinking
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Ali, Muhammad on boxing
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"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise, they are free from perplexities; and bold, they are free from fear."

Confucius on superiority
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"A cause a day keeps reality away."

Fraser, Jim on reality   

"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."

Epictetus on freedom
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"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Italian on experience
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on insanity   

"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"

Young, Brigham on silence
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"A fool and his money are soon parted."

Proverb on fools and foolishness   

"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on opinions   

"Time discovered truth."

Seneca on time
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"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fashion
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"Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on disciples   

"If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on discovery
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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on experience   

"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fallibility
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"A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fools and foolishness   

"What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on freedom   

"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on learning   

"Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on liberals
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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on apathy
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"Science is all metaphor."

Leary, Timothy on science   

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on strategies
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"I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it."

Jackson, Reggie on success
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"We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness
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"He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers."

Proverb on idleness