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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology, 399 BC
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life, c. 49 AD
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders · Reader's Digest, 1957
“The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The coin is the same. It just depends which side you're watching.”
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman · The Sandman, 1989
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”
Franklin P. Jones · widely attributed
“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
Benjamin Franklin · widely attributed
“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.”
Mark Twain · widely attributed to Twain
“I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.”
Horatio Nelson · attributed
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck · On Writing, attributed
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Blaise Pascal · Lettres provinciales, 1657
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735
“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”
Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, attributed
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
Fran Lebowitz · The Fran Lebowitz Reader, 1994
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Confucius
