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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!

(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.”
― Maurice Young

“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“In the dark, all cats are black.”
― John Cage

“Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.”
― Dean Koontz

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

“بعضنا يعيش عُمره حَسرةً علي قِطار فاته.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves there, too.”
― Kristin Martz

“Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.”
― Dale Partridge

“When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift.
He makes it safe for her to express herself.
The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Écrire sur soi-même c'est écrire sur les autres, puisque vos problèmes, vos souffrances, vos plaisirs, vos émotions -et vos idées extraordinaires et remarquables- ne peuvent pas n'appartenir qu'à vous. La façon de régler le problème de la "subjectivité", cette affreuse tendance à se préoccuper de l'infime individu qui se trouve en même temps pris dans une explosion de possibilités terribles et merveilleuses, consiste à voir en lui un microcosme et ainsi à dépasser le personnel général, comme le fait évidemment la vie, transformant une expérience intime -du moins le croyez-vous- lorsque vous êtes encore enfant, "je suis amoureuse", "j'éprouve telle ou telle émotion, je pense telle ou telle chose" -en quelque chose de plus ample: grandir consiste en fin de compte à comprendre que sa propre expérience incroyable et unique est ce que tout le monde partage.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure��”
― Patricia Polacco

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.”
― Edward Hoagland, In the Country of the Blind

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
― Anonymous

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“On nous définit encore, même les gens les plus évolués, en fonctions de nos relations avec les hommes.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“واعلم أنه من أعظم المحن الاغترار بالسلامة بعد الذنب ، فإن العقوبة تتأخر ، ومن أعظم العقوبة أن لا يحس الإنسان بها”
― ابن الجوزي, صيد الخاطر

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky