Category: Quotes

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin

“There’s a huge difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.”
– Richard Feynman

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce

“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
– Tim Ferriss

“No one loves the man he fears.”
– Aristotle

“It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
– Albert Camus

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”
– Freud

“Every man hears only what he understands.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”
– Aristotle

“No.”
– Rosa Parks

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Philosophy, like regular life, is best experienced with an attitude of intellectual grace.
‘What can this person teach me?’ is a much more productive question than ‘How is this person wrong?’
– David Perell

“I have no special gift. I am just passionately curious”
– Albert Einstein

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden