"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."

Lao-Tzu on art
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"Sanely applied advertising could remake the world."

Chase, Stuart on advertising
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"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Fuller, Thomas on paradise   

"If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress."

Rockerfeller, David on discontent   

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on success   

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on conversation
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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on argument
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"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on misfortunes
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"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on patience   

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on communication
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"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on discipline   

"Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on religion
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"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man."

Russell, Bertrand on detail   

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

Russell, Bertrand on doubt
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

Lange, Dorothea on photography
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