“ One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
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“ I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
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“ Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself. ”
- Franz Xavier Kroetz- Copy
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“ It's only by amusing oneself that one can learn. ”
- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman- Copy
- 2.3K
“ To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ”
- Marlene Dietrich- Copy
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“ Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ”
- Paul Tillich- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ”
- Sarah Bernhardt- Copy
- 404
“ Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 2.3K
“ To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. ”
- Marie Leneru- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The greatest delight is to mark one's enemy, prepare everything, avenge oneself thoroughly, and then go to sleep. ”
- Joseph Stalin- Copy
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