“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
Cassandra Clare · City of Bones, 2007
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison · The Tatler, 1710
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson · Letter to John Adams, June 10, 1815
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
Harry S. Truman
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka · Letter to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin · A Dance with Dragons, 2011
“I'd rather make something that divides people than something that bores everyone equally.”
Oliver Tree
“I've always felt like I existed outside of every group.”
Oliver Tree
“I don't care what anyone thinks of me. That's my greatest strength.”
Oliver Tree
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
Isak Dinesen
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Strength to Love, 1963
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell
