“Afghanistan or Iraq?”
Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink, 2010
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“Sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side.”
Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 2, Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia, 2012
“I'm not a psychopath, Anderson. I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.”
Sherlock Holmes · BBC Sherlock, Series 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink, 2010
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin · "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," New York Times Book Review, 1962
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology, c. 399 BC
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.”
Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass, 1855
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 4
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, c. 65 AD
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
Albert Einstein
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien · The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
Albus Dumbledore · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling, 1997
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha · Dhammapada
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Mark Twain
“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
“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments.”
Tahereh Mafi · Shatter Me, 2011
