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Quotes to Shape Reality

After seeing Jason Silva's neat video I wanted to start a list of all lists for quotes inspiring us to use language to shape reality.

This resource, compiled lovingly over many years by my friend Michael Felber at PASTPRESENTFUTURE is one of those things that sits on my Google Drive that I wish I had instant access to, ever. I requite information technology away — I love the taxonomical and philosophical thought that overlays it. Add at will!!!!

Get Set to Jump:

history filtered, genius vetted, civilisation tested, ready-to-bound insights in human friendly sticky mind-bite candy format.

(a carefully curated pick of written & illustrated memes)

SUBJECTS (TAXONOMY):

Linguistics (The Tools):

QUOTES (APHORISMS / PROVERBS / SAYINGS / MEMES)

RHETORIC / FIGURES OF Speech

METAPHORS

HUMOR

Evaluation (The Space):

CONTEXT

OBJECTIVE

RELEVANCE

ETHICS

Residue

Knowledge (Management):

HISTORY / (CULTURAL Development) PROGRESS / Spring?

DECISIONS / Selection vs. CHANCE

LEARNING / COMPREHENSION vs IGNORANCE

APPROACH / METHOD

TEACHING

WISDOM / Verse / HAPPINESS?

Experience (Management):

EMOTION

ATTITUDE / HABITS

AWARENESS / SYNCD?

Interpretation / Art

Bugs / Biases:

Self DECEPTION

FUNDAMENTAL Bug

Defoliation / Fear

DOGMA / SCRIPTURE

Ability / Abuse

FORCE / WAR

Interaction:

MEDIA

CONVERSATION

INFLUENCE

SELLING

INVESTMENT

Constructive Powers:

Accomplishment / OPTIMISM / PERSISTENCE

MOTIVATION / VALUES

Dear

JOY

Dazzler

Creative Evolution:

SUSTAINABILITY

Cosmos

INNOVATION

IDENTITY

TIMELESS

LUXURIOUS: ESSENCE / REFINED / POETIC ?

FUN

Not SORTED All the same:

IMAGINATION

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QUOTES / PROVERBS / SAYINGS

The edited, authorized, heed-bite format (memes) that transcends and shapes history, cultures & people

(usefulness)

"A good proverb allows you to have the last word without fifty-fifty starting a conversation." Nassim Taleb

"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand practise more than to produce a happy life than the volumes we tin't notice." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The superior homo acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in lodge to strengthen his character thereby." John Milton (1608–1674)

"It is a good thing for an uneducated homo to read books of quotations." Winston Churchill

"A fine quotation is a diamond in the manus of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool." Joseph Roux (1725–1793)

"A good adage is too hard for the teeth of time and is not eaten up by all the centuries, even though it serves as food for every age: hence information technology is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which — like salt — is always prized, but which never loses its savor as salt does." Friedrich Nietzsche

(concentrated wisdom)

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated past quotations." Isaac D'Israeli

"The wisdom of the wise and the feel of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." William Feather

"The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs." from the Greek

"A proverb is a brusque sentence based on long experience." Miguel de Cervantes

"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure." Edward Thorndike

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of ability." Francis Bacon

"Good aphorism is besides hard for the tooth of time, and is non worn away by all the centuries, although it serves equally nutrient for every epoch." Nietzsche Friedrich

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience." Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra / Don Quixote

"Proverbs similar the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A saying is one human's wit and all men'due south wisdom." Lord John Russell

"A short saying often contains much wisdom." Sophocles

"Of minimal syllabary, unambiguous, pithy, comprehensive, / non-redundant, and without flaw: who knows the sūtra knows information technology to be thus."

"I'd rather spread memes than genes." Richard Dawkins

(instructions / definition)

"A good tweet/maxim shd 1) surprise y'all, 2) be true (countrintuitv), & three) be symmetric (one assertion, one negation) or rythmic Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"A saying is much affair distilled into few words." R. Buckminster Fuller

"Genius might be the ability to say a profound matter in a simple way." Charles Bukowski

(critic / funny)

"2010, 600,000 books in English with few memorable quotes; c. 0 Advertising, a scattering of books with loads of quotes. Data rich dark ages." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I have a theory that you tin make any sentence seem profound past writing the name of a expressionless philosopher at the finish of it. — Plato" Banksy (Artist)

(negativ)

"…Cheap metaphors capture our minds". Daniel Kahneman (fastfood of the heed)

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CONTEXT:

"Zero has meaning except it be seen equally in some context." Gregory Bateson

"Even for something simple, it's like I don't know what my favorite color is until y'all give me some other choices." Jeff Bezos (slightly dumb?)

"It's not about the pieces, it'south how the pieces fit together." Ice Cube

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METAPHORS:

"the greatest thing by far is to take a control of metaphor. This solitary cannot be imparted past another; it is the marking of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances." Aristotle

"The greatest thing in style is to accept a command of metaphor." Aristotle

"An idea is a feat of clan, and the height of it is a good metaphor" Robert Frost

"We often aspect "understanding" and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and illustration to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, merely nothing is proved past such attributions." John Searle

"We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking…" R. Buckminster Fuller

"Cardinal metaphors aid decide what and how we perceive and how we think almost our perceptions." M. H. Abrams

"Science is all metaphor." Timothy Leary

"Life, as the most aboriginal of all metaphors insists, is a journeying; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things." Jonathan Raban

"Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what information technology is like, the nigh impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been fabricated by the application of suggestive metaphors." Jonathan Miller

"…Cheap metaphors capture our minds." Daniel Kahneman

"There is no real knowing apart from metaphor.'' Nietzsche

"An aphorism is a 1-line novel." Leonid Due south. Sukhorukov

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OBJECTIVE:

"The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can pb. Few men are capable of it (so only intermittently).

For the residual in that location is a 2nd-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom." (Aristotle, Metaphysics)

Nations Love State of war. Nation States dearest Trade, Families love Stability, Individuals honey Entertainment. Nassim Taleb

"We are dissimilar from our animal ancestors in that we are not content to simply survive, but have been incredibly busy making up new itches which we accept to scratch, digging actress holes that nosotros have to fill, creating new desires nosotros've never had before." Kevin Kelly

(life purpose)

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, just to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." Marcus Aurelius

"Extending our knowledge and casting a wider cyberspace of consciousness is the purpose of life." Ray Kurzweil

"The purpose of life is life." Karl Lagerfeld

"Follow Your Bliss" Joseph Campbell

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." Dalai Lama

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius (335 BC — 264 BC)

"live life to the full, to savour every moment." Richard Branson

"My goal is unproblematic. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is every bit information technology is and why information technology exists at all." Stephen Hawking

"We're hither to put a dent in the universe" Steve Jobs

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by adventure." Jean-Paul Sartre quotes

"We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a act; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) past suffering." Victor Frankl

(motivation)

"Human being is a goal seeking animal. His life simply has pregnant if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." Aristotle

"I do non try to dance better than anyone else. I only endeavor to dance better than myself." Mikhail Baryshnikov

To sympathise the centre and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires. Kahlil Gibran

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and so focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them. Denis Waitley

(procedure)

"First, have a definite, clear applied platonic; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, suit all your ways to that finish." Aristotle

"I call back that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than nosotros. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally." Euripides

"the goal of his visitor is changing the world by spreading the cognition of innovators." Tim O'Reilly

Our responsibility is to practice what we tin, learn what we can, amend the solutions, and laissez passer them on. Richard P. Feynman

"Our chief want is someone who volition inspire us to be what we know nosotros could exist." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is poetic and explicable." Richard Dawkins

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until nosotros stop harming all other living beings, nosotros are still savages." Thomas Alva Edison

Negadef:

"If yous aim at aught, you'll hit it every time." Author unknown

"Our plans expel because they have no aim. When a homo does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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RELEVANCE:

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the well-nigh of import." Arthur Conan Doyle

"The details are not the details. They brand the design." Charles Eames (also in creating)

"We think in generalities, merely nosotros live in detail" Alfred North Whitehead (also in wisdom)

Negadev:

"Here's to our boondocks — a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't demand to print friends they don't like." Lewis C. Henry

"Information technology is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless." John Kenneth Galbraith

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ETHICS:

"Compassion is the basis of morality." Arthur Schopenhauer

"A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives — of approving of some and disapproving of others" Charles Darwin

"The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that nosotros ought to control our thoughts." Charles Darwin

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." H. G. Wells

"Then act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole globe." Immanuel Kant

"..a straightforward notion of Unconditionality every bit cardinal virtue, there is a scale for humans: 1) at the lesser, those who bend their principles for gain (opportunists),

2) at the superlative those who sacrifice for principles simply, 3) at the center the unbribable. N. Taleb

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BALANCE:

"To go beyond is as incorrect equally to fall brusk." Confucius

"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal" William James

"Nigh every wise maxim has an opposite 1, no less wise, to balance information technology." George Santayana (not sure?)

"There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other." Protagoras (? meaning)

"The all-time is the enemy of the good." Voltaire. (and the good can be the enemy of the best MF)

"Use, practise not corruption; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." Voltaire

"…the merely people who really know where the edge is are the ones who take gone over" Hunter Thompson (Hells Angels)

"Compages which acquires tranquility and residual thanks to geometric order, obtains dynamism cheers to natural phenomena and human movement." Tadao Ando

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HISTORY / PROGRESS:

We've gone from continued to interconnected to ethically interdependent." Thomas Friedman

"the whole history of mankind is the gradual rise of the spirit to mastery over nature." Jean-Louis Cohen

"Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning sensation that nosotros are members of a larger group." Carl Sagan

"Homo history in essence is the history of ideas." H. K. Wells

"All the forces in the world are non then powerful as an thought whose fourth dimension has come up." Victor Hugo

"That men practice not larn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." Aldous Huxley

"Broad erudition, when supported past a expert mathematical civilisation, is vastly more than robust than whatever specialization. The wisdom of the ancients was domain-independent." Nassim Taleb

(report the past)

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of by ages,

the world must remain e'er in the infancy of cognition." Cicero (106 BC — 43 BC)

"Men tin can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a cognition of what their ancestors had already learned….That is why a society tin

be progressive only if information technology conserves its traditions." Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

"The more extensive a man's cognition of what has been done, the greater volition exist his ability of knowing what to practise." Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a human being who has no ears or eyes" Adolf Hitler

"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past." Baruch Spinoza

"It takes twenty years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you recall about that, you'll do things differently." Warren Buffett

"Fools make researches and wise men exploit them." H. Yard. Wells

"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand up on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business organization in every generation is to repossess a little more state." Thomas Henry Huxley

If history and science take taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. Edward O. Wilson

"To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution." Edward O. Wilson

"Change is sure, progress is not." E.H. Carr

"The defining strength behind life is not energy but data. Evolution is a process of information transmission, then is engineering, which is why it besides reflects a biological transcendence." Kevin Kelly

"A crisis tin really take people from thinking about what's next to thinking about what is first." Po Bronson

(innovation — gentrification)

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." Marker Twain

"Ascona is actually a case study in how what are now fashionable tourist destinations get that mode: first you take romantic idealists, then social utopias that attract artists, so come the bankers who buy the paintings and want to live where the artists do. When the bankers phone call for architects the disaster starts." Harald Szeemann

"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably tin be done, but information technology's not worth doing. 3) I knew information technology was a skillful thought all forth." Arthur C. Clarke

"The human heed treats a new thought the aforementioned way the torso treats a strange protein; it rejects it." — P. B. Medawar

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DECISIONS: CHOICE vs. CHANCE

How better decisions (mostly) lead to better "LUCK"

"In that location are two primary choices in life: to accept weather condition as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." Denis Waitley

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." John Ruskin

"No man was ever wise by chance." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"You have freedom of choice, but not liberty from choice." Wendell Jones

Destiny is not a thing of chance, information technology is a affair of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be accomplished. William Jennings Bryan

"…while near human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has focused usa on how to plow knowledge into decisions, I am interested in how to turn lack of information, lack of understanding, and lack of "cognition" into decisions." Nassim Taleb

"The possibilities are numerous in one case we make up one's mind to deed and not react." George Bernard Shaw

"Everything that depends on the action of nature is past nature equally good as it tin can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or whatsoever rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement." Aristotle

"The homo on height of the mountain didn't fall there." Vince Lombardi

"To be modern means to see life equally alternatives, preferences and choices." David Apter

"It is our choices…that prove what nosotros truly are, far more than our abilities." J. Grand. Rowling.

(Responsibility from Choice)

"Privilege yields opportunity, and opportunity confers responsibilities. An private then has choices." Noam Chomsky

"We have become every bit gods and accept to become good at it." That includes taking things like geoengineering seriously. With power comes responsibleness." Stewart Brand

"The price of greatness is responsibleness." Sir Winston Churchill

"Chance favors the prepared heed." Louis Pasteur

"Chance favors those in motion." James Austin

"Chance is a word void of sense; nix can be without a cause." Voltaire

Instead of evolution happening but due to random mutations that survived selective pressure,

we see how by adding chromosomes to or exchanged between species, that thousands of changes

could happen in an instant. At present they tin happen non but by random CHANCE merely by deliberate

man design and selection (Pick-mf). Human thought and design and specific selection is now replacing

Darwinian development. Craig Venter 07

Screw it, Let's do it!' Richard Branson

Restless questioning, the ability to ask the question 'why non?' rather than merely 'why?' Richard Branson

When in doubt, don't. Benjamin Franklin

When "Why not do information technology?" barely outweights "Why do it?" — don't do information technology. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

(habits)

"Not pick, but addiction rules the unreflecting herd," William Wordsworth

(remaining randomness of luck)

"Many of united states of america have been extraordinarily lucky — and we did not earn it. Many skilful people have been extraordinarily unlucky — and they did non deserve it." Sam Harris

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"It's not what happens to you it's what you do about it that makes the deviation." Wilson Mitchell

"Nosotros cannot direct the wind only we can adjust the sails." Vince Lombardi

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser." H. M. Wells

"Adventure makes a plaything of a homo'south life."

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LEARNING / COMPREHENSION VS IGNORANCE:

"Nosotros know accurately but when nosotros know footling, with knowledge doubt increases." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"At that place is only 1 good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." Socrates (469 BC — 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius

"The greatest enemy of noesis is non ignorance, information technology is the illusion of knowledge." Stephen Hawking (1942 — )

"Thoroughly conscious ignorance … is a prelude to every real accelerate in knowledge." James Clerk Maxwell

"All men by nature desire knowledge." Aristotle (Motive?) (384 BC — 322 BC), Metaphysics

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." Leonardo da Vinci

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds and so to the understanding, and ends with reason. In that location is zilch college than reason." Immanuel Kant (seems incomplete.. to absolute — information technology's about applying reason in a constructive way in the end… MF)

"Information is the thing that nosotros care virtually nigh. The more nosotros understand the role that information plays in our world, the more skillful citizens nosotros will exist." James Gleick

"Everybody experiences far more than than he understands. Yet information technology is experience, rather than understanding, that influences beliefs." Marshall Mcluhan

"Knowledge is an unending take a chance at the edge of dubiousness." Jacob Bronowski

"Information is the resolution of uncertainty." Claude Shannon

(Separating Opinion and Science / ..Conversation from Fact / Experience from Real / MF ):

"Opinion is the medium between noesis and ignorance." Plato

"Don't believe everything you retrieve." Thomas Kida

"Our believing dictates what nosotros're seeing." Michael Shermer

"What you lot tin imagine depends on what you know." Daniel C. Dennett

"Let the dataset change your mindset." Hans Roesling

"Expect, this is science. Belief isn't an choice". Daniel Kahneman

"At that place are in fact ii things, science and opinion; the former begets noesis, the latter ignorance." Hippocrates (460 BC — 377 BC), Law

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon"

"Facts do not end to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

"It is a very contempo disease to fault the unobservable for the nonexistent." Nntaleb

"The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing earth of sensation, which is the object of stance, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of cognition." Plato

"I trait in the philosopher'southward grapheme we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by modify and decay." Plato

"The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality." Plato

"You can never acquire less, y'all tin merely learn more." R. Buckminster Fuller

"Science consists in grouping facts and then that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." Charles Darwin

"The fool universalizes from particulars; the nerd particularizes from universals; the wise does neither." Nassim Taleb

"The future of work consists of learning a living." Marshall McLuhan

"No problem tin can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." Voltaire

"When nosotros hear news nosotros should ever wait for the sacrament of confirmation." Voltaire

(How to Acquire)

"To be a philosopher is to know past reasoning, and reasoning only, what others can only learn from their mistakes." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. Y'all can't maybe alive long plenty to brand them all yourself." Sam Levenson

"..true cognition is mainly removing junk from one's head." Nassim Taleb

"Knowledge is subtractive, not additive; what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what Non to do), not what we add (what to do)." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The questions are the answers." John Brockman

"To know what to ask is already to know half." Aristotle

"Man can learn cypher unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown." Claude Bernard (1813–1878)

"The manner is long if one follows precepts, but short… if ane follows patterns." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Past three methods nosotros may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third past experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I run across and I remember. I do and I empathize." Confucius

"Education is what remains after 1 has forgotten what one has learned in school." Albert Einstein

"Education is non filling a bucket, only lighting a burn." W. B. Yeats

"If the school curriculum was shaped by contribution to future happiness, at least one-half would be on relationships." @alaindebotton

(Unbalanced Ratio of Information vs. Knowledge)

"We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge and wisdom." John Naisbitt

"So much has already been written well-nigh everything that you can't detect out anything about it." James Thurber

Nothing has meaning except it exist seen every bit in some context. Gregory Bateson (too in Context)

Information is any divergence that makes a difference. Gregory Bateson

Knowledge is whatsoever departure that makes a difference that makes a difference". Gregory Bateson

"Inquire counsel of him who rules himself well." Leonardo Da Vinci

"The whole of scientific discipline is zilch more than a refinement of everyday thinking." Albert Einstein (and ideally — it'due south objective, the refinement of everyday co-existence-MF)

"The endeavor to understand is the outset and but footing of virtue." Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677

"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point." Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. Eric Hoffer

"Reading without reflecting is similar eating without digesting." Edmund Burke

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides past our facility with language." J. Michael Straczynski

The man who does not read expert books has no advantage over the human who cannot read them. Mark Twain

Wisdom is the right use of cognition. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened. Lao-tzu (604 BC — 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu

When y'all know a matter, to concord that yous know it; and when you lot do non know a thing, to allow that you practise not know it — this is knowledge. Confucius (551 BC — 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no activity. Lao-tzu

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Lao-tzu (604 BC — 531 BC), The Manner of Lao-tzu

"Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness betwixt the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to alive, and yet they do non know how to die." Seneca (four BC-65 Ad)

"People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that information technology is within anybody'southward reach to live nobly, but inside no one'south reach to live long." Seneca (4 BC-65 Advertisement)

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power. Herodotus (484 BC — 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus

New knowledge is the most valuable article on earth. The more truth nosotros have to work with, the richer we get. Kurt Vonnegut (1922 — ), Breakfast of Champions

You lot know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yeah without having asked any articulate question. Albert Camus (1913–1960), La Chute (The Fall),1956

Leave no rock unturned. Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.

In this earth second thoughts, information technology seems, are best. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.

"Facts are to the mind what nutrient is to the body" Edmund Shush

Man is the merely animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the simply animate being that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt

"The good of a volume lies in its being read. A volume is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their plough speak of things." Umberto Eco

If history and science take taught us anything, information technology is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. Edward O. Wilson

There is no fool and then groovy a fool as a knowing fool. Merely to know how to use cognition is to have wisdom. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892)

"Scientific discipline is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." Richard Feyman

"Yous tin can't wait for inspiration. Yous take to go after it with a social club." Jack London

Courage is knowing what non to fear." — Plato

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Every time you read it or say it, you lot brand another copy in your brain." Daniel Dennet

NegaDev:

"Where there is shouting, there is no true noesis." Leonardo da Vinci

"We spent the showtime yr teaching kids to walk and talk and the residue of their childhood tell them to shutup and sitdown." Neil de Grasse Tyson

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APPROACH / METHOD:

Expose yourself to the best things humans have done so try to bring those things into what you are doing. Steve Jobs

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did non like would have an reverse, which I would similar." Coco Chanel

"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal" William James

"..broad erudition, when supported by a skilful mathematical civilization, is vastly more robust than any specialization. The wisdom of the ancients was domain-independent." Nassim Taleb

"To see if y'all like where you lot live: check if you are as happy returning as you lot were leaving. Also applies to work/relationships…" Nassim Taleb

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us likewise." Voltaire

"Past appreciation, we make excellence in others our own holding." Voltaire

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for usa to do the contrary, that is to commence with experience and from this to go along to investigate the reason." Leonardo da Vinci

"Logic takes care of itself; all we take to practise is to look and encounter how information technology does it." Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If I have seen further than others, it is past standing upon the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton

"An idea is a point of divergence and no more. Every bit shortly as you lot elaborate information technology, information technology becomes transformed by idea." Pablo Picasso

"A conclusion is only the place where someone got tired of thinking." Arthur Cake

"He who seeks wisdom is a wise human being; he who thinks he has found it is mad." Seneca (4 BC-65 Advertizement)

"Let united states of america say what nosotros feel, and experience what we say; let speech communication harmonize with life." Seneca (4 BC-65 Advertizement)

"Goodness is the merely investment that never fails." Henry David Thoreau

"Always do right. This will appease some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." Samuel Johnson

The superior mind does not set his listen either for annihilation, or against anything; what is right he will follow. Confucious

"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart of stone." Charles Darwin

He who does not motility forrard goes backward. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (slightly moral?)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an human action, but a habit." Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy, published in 1926

"To be honest, one must be inconsistent." H. G. Wells (seems incomplete)

"He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality." Friedrich Dürrenmatt

"A human being walking is never in balance merely always correcting for imbalance." Gregory Bateson

Modesty forbids what the law does not. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is gear up and willing to quit it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Information technology is non the strongest of the species that survives, nor the nigh intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, besides) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most finer have prevailed" Charles Darwin"

"I have called this principle, past which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Pick." Charles Darwin

"The leader has to be applied and a realist, all the same must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." Eric Hoffer

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems correct for y'all and strive to exist the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be lonely at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you lot can give. Edward O. Wilson

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Cesare Pavese

"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill." Albert Einstein

"You can never plan the future by the past." Edmund Burke

"All authorities, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and castling." Edmund Burke

"To exist wronged is zero unless you continue to remember it." Confucius

"Write injuries in grit, benefits in marble." Benjamin Franklin

"Don't believe everything you retrieve." Thomas Kida

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WISDOM / POETRY / HAPPINESS:

"Poesy is finer and more philosophical than history; for poesy expresses the universal, and history only the particular." Aristotle

"Life is what happens while y'all're busy making other plans." John Lennon

"While nosotros are postponing, life speeds by." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living." Voltaire

"You lot are what y'all recall well-nigh all day long." Dr. Robert Schuller

"Everything hangs on one'south thinking." Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

"Nosotros are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them." Buddha

"We are what we recollect. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, nosotros make the world." Buddha

"What we think, we become." Buddha

"Whatever words nosotros utter should be chosen with treat people will hear them and be influenced by them for expert or sick." Buddha

"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the existent. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we alive." Victor Hugo

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination" Immanuel Kant

"Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to promise for." — Immanuel Kant

"Luck is what happens when grooming meets opportunity. Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

"Wisdom is the supreme role of happiness." Sophocles

"All first-class things are as hard as they are rare." (Spinoza, Ideals, 1673)

"Reality is that which, when you end assertive in it, doesn't go away." Philip 1000. Dick

"In nature in that location are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." Robert Green Ingersoll

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." Robert Dark-green Ingersoll

"Nosotros live in deeds, non years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not lives. Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Philip James Bailey

"I accept come to believe that the whole earth is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our ain mad effort to interpret it equally though it had an underlying truth." Umberto Eco

"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands." Seneca (4 BC-65 Advertizement)

"I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall exist ane of those who make things beautiful" Friedrich Nietzsche

"What is required is not a lot words, just effectual ones. Seneca (4 BC-65 Advertisement)

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters." Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

"Mere life is not a blessing, simply to alive well. Seneca (4 BC-65 Advertizement)

"Science is organized cognition. Wisdom is organized life." Immanuel Kant

"Yes, could you move over a fleck, you're blocking my sun" Diogenes to Alexander the Cracking.

Blushing is the color of virtue. Diogenes

What I like to drink nigh is wine that belongs to others. Diogenes

The truly noble mind has no resentments. Diogenes

Nothing endures simply change. Heraclitus

"Its better to burn out than fade away". Alexander The Neat

Nosotros make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In that location is no delight in owning anything unshared. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us past what nosotros have already done. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What you are is what you take been, and what you will exist is what y'all practise now. The Buddha

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing" Edmund Shush

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to i branch exclusively.

Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no scientific discipline entirely; for science is simply i. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish for healing has e'er been half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wherever there is a human beingness, there is an opportunity for a kindness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, that was a happy age, earlier the days of architects, before the days of builders. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Begin at one time to live, and count each day as a separate life. Seneca

Take more thou showest; Speak less than one thousand knowest. Shakespeare

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the globe is to exist in reality what we appear to be. Socrates

"The salvation of flesh lies merely in making everything the concern of all." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Common sense is not then common." Voltaire

"The truthful triumph of reason is that it enables us to become along with those who do not possess it." Voltaire

"It is non enough to conquer; one must as well know how to seduce" Voltaire

"To hold a pen is to exist at state of war." Voltaire

Practice well and you will have no need for ancestors. Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Voltaire

"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the diverse parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness." Stephen R. Covey

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cerebral and fifty-fifty spiritual satisfaction. Edward O. Wilson

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in fourth dimension. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Noesis is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin Fischer.

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." John A. Simone, Sr

The role of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. CICERO

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. NORMAN COUSINS

"Our lives are what our thoughts make of it." Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180 A.D.)

"We retrieve in generalities, simply nosotros live in detail" Alfred North Whitehead

"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it is." Winston Churchill

"The but man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.

The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them." George Bernard Shaw

"Seek always, for by looking for 1 thing you will surely observe another — this is the path to wisdom." Grey Wolf

All that we are is the result of what we take thought. Buddha

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really then; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Salary

"Everything you own owns you lot" Mary Grigsby

"All philosophy in 2 words, — sustain and abstain" Epictetus

"Only be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, motility your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand." Bruce Lee

What was once idea tin never be unthought. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese proverb

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. Foucault?

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. Voltaire

(unhappiness)

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation merely your thoughts about it." Eckhart Tolle

(short term thinking)

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what nosotros want virtually for what we want in the moment.

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EMOTION

"The starting time and simplest emotion which we discover in the human listen, is marvel" Edmund Shush

"The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are ever immediately subject to activity" William James quotes

(American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842–1910)

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts." Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872–1970)

"A vast sector of modern advertising… does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, information technology tries to impress its objects emotionally and and so make them submit intellectually." Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

"Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body." Irene Claremont de Castillejo

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fearfulness." Edmund Burke

"To increase your effectiveness, make your emotions subordinate to your commitments" Brian Koslow

"He liked to observe emotions; they were similar ruby lanterns strung along the night unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points." Ayn Rand

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." Roger Ebert

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions past the application of reason" Marya Mannes

"Only every bit your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to become faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance." Brian Tracy

"One of the things which danger does to you afterwards a fourth dimension is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything over again except fear. None of us can hate anymore — or dearest." Graham Greene

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ATTITUDE / HABITS

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and apply it." Aristotle (384 BC — 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

It is no utilize saying, "We are doing our all-time." Y'all have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill

Don't find a fault. Find a remedy. Henry Ford

"…a skilful entrepreneur looks for solutions, not excuses." Richard Branson

"Exercise does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." Vince Lombardi

"Never, Never, Never Surrender." Winston Churchill

"Exercise not allow yourself or others to be defined by your limitations, simply rather, abilities." — Eric Duquette

"Attitudes are more important than facts." — Dr. Karl Menninger

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big deviation." Winston Churchill

"Character is destiny." Heraclitus

Never say Never Gloria Swanson

"I never judge. It is a shocking addiction destructive to the logical faculty." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the low-cal won't come in." — Isaac Asimov

"Confidence, similar fine art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." Diogenes Laertius

"Success is a journey, not a destination." Vince Lombardi

"What'due south worth doing at all is worth doing well." Abraham Lincoln Turner

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu (780–490 B.C.)

"One ought, everyday at least, to hear a petty vocal, read a skillful verse form, see a fine moving-picture show, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." Johnann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There are only ii ways to live your life. One is equally though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we think we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Marking Twain

"Don't forget until too tardily that the concern of life is not business but living." — B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine

"Many people accept no care of their coin till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do merely the same with their time." Goethe

"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They simply make the best of everything." Bearding

"If you really want to do something, you lot will find a way. If you lot don't, you will find an alibi." — Anonymous

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day later on tomorrow. Mark Twain

The all-time manner to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else upwardly. Mark Twain

Proceed away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small-scale people always do that, but the actually neat make y'all experience that you, too, can become peachy. Mark Twain

Mediocrity knows cipher higher than itself, only talent instantly recognizes genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The quality of a person'due south life is in direct proportion to their delivery to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi

Keep your blood make clean, your body lean, and your heed precipitous. Henry Rollins

Living well is the gift of philosophy. Seneca

There'south a way to do it better — discover information technology! Thomas A. Edison

The near courageous human action is still to recall for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel

Ability is what y'all're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Raymond Chandler

Your attitude determines your altitude. — Vince Lombardi

"Any fool can criticise, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving." — Dale Carnegie

"We must be careful in our decisions, careful in our words, and we must be careful in our relationships. We must alive our life advisedly." Nelson Mandela

"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim information technology everywhere: They only live who cartel." Voltaire

"For paranoia about what other people call up' : remember that simply some hate, a very few love — and almost all simply don't care." Alain de Botton

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