Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance you must keep

moving.
Einstein
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all
your tricks of war.
napoleon

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I

would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a
quiet place and kill him.
mark twain

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

einstein

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he
wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

(Friedrich Nietzsche)

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand Foch

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her

intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be

wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson
 Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the
servant.
Victor Hugo

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be

surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main
problem.
Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others

crazy?
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
Albert Einstein
 Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of
religion.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and

punishes evil.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the
years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called

research, would it?
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein
 In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large
and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people
are all the same.
Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its
limits.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative
mind.
Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play
better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become
a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore
ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be

than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally
also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich Nietzsche
 In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole

book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but
also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have
nothing.
Helen Keller
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If
they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow
men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no
remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a
liar.
Mark Twain
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't
matter.
Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because
I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School
Board.
Mark Twain

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have
friends in both places.
Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a
fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in
a room.
Blaise Pascal

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Blaise Pascal
 As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they
have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of
them at all.
Blaise Pascal

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Blaise Pascal
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it
in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with

the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one
wants.
Blaise Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with
the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are
beyond reason.
Blaise Pascal
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are
sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Blaise Pascal
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes
with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
 All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of
people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been
too impressed.
Bob Dylan
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to
be.
Bob Dylan

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has
never overcome them.
Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an

understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes
our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own
hearts.
Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the
darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not
know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he
knows what it is not.
Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured
who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
 The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and
everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in
order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to
perdition.
Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does
not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to
bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect.

The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they
can imagine.
Sigmund Freud
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and
cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are
bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
 If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a
conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire;
the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person
and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is
obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot
change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the
point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between
two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but
that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure
to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make
them.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has

taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the
responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows
anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and

adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run
away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
 Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of
weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that

which is concrete.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I

deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the
whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science.
But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do
not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
 Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being
eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a

defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished:
the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other
than you life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an
atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries
out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not judge the people we love.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what
we are - that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Jean-Paul Sartre
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of
nothing.
Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Oscar Wilde
 I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of
nothing.
Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his
punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art
far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
 Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence

without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like

him.
Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at

all.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds
exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often

convincing.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its
fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be
popular.
Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is

passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in
touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them;
 rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the

unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century
that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the
people for the people.
Oscar Wilde

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you

that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength
and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time

to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it

every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper
 basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of

what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their
good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot
be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no

principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something

sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a
bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
 Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Oscar Wilde

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no
use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to
listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you
pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of
optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism
governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older
than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either
charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is
not.
 Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a
mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a

man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious;
both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we

personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover

when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's
mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look

ugly.
 Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so

calculating.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure
the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should
be judged.
Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each
one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do
more.
Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself

would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses
both.
 Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Oscar Wilde
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with

science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to

live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are
only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world
its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the
critic.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is
unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction
means.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the
young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of
any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist
everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except

genius.
Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the
incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people
who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely
nothing.
Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel
no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's

tragedies.
Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people

whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all

authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that
is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us

candidates.
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