“ True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ”
- Socrates- Copy
- 3K
“ Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1K
“ Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for? ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
- 233
“ Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”
- Pete Seeger- Copy
- 1.6K
“ When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3K
“ True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius. ”
- Puzant Kevork Thomajan- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. ”
- Pete Seeger- Copy
- 750
“ The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ”
- Colin Wilson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 611
“ Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 1.9K
“ One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 375
“ Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. ”
- Frederick Langbridge- Copy
- 740
“ If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.". ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. ”
- Nikki Giovanni- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. ”
- Francis Lockier- Copy
- 3.3K
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