You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
—Unknown
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
—Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.
—Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American Actor, Comedian, Singer
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Take rather than give the tone of the company you are in.—If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people’s choosing than of your own.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The sun also shines on the wicked.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
—Horace Mann (1796–1859) American Educator, Politician, Educationalist
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) French Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Never forget public ignorance is the government’s best friend.
—Unknown
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
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