"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

Shakespeare, William on children   

"I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Adams, Franklin P. on knowledge
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Butler, Samuel on work
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"There exists somewhere, around us, without or within us, in the depths of the unseen world, spheres where are formed the eternal images reflected in our intellects, and which the artist or poet filch from Mystery by the magic ...power of their imagination, that mysterious divine faculty which must be known in order to be in tune with the harmony of the World."

delville, jean on imagination   

"I have no regrets, I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."

Bergman, Ingrid on regret
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"Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something."

Edison, Thomas A. on rules
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"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes."

Hillesum, Etty on prayer
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

Carnegie, Dale on preparation
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading
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"Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals."

Dunne, Finley Peter on vegetarianism   

"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts."

Dunne, Finley Peter on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

Epicurus on desire
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"However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

Hoffer, Eric on friends and friendship   

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off."

Shaw, George Bernard on photography   

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on patience   

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on eccentricity
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"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

Einstein, Albert on conformity
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