“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost · A Servant to Servants, 1914
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286 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Robert Frost · The Figure a Poem Makes, 1939
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
Robert Frost · Hyla Brook, 1916
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Robert Frost · The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire · Zadig, 1747
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
Voltaire
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
Voltaire
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
Voltaire · Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire · Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire · Questions sur les miracles, 1765
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
Voltaire · The Age of Louis XIV, 1752
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
Voltaire · Letter to Frederick the Great, 1767
