Category: Quotes

“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

“Changing your mind is not a sign of losing integrity. It’s often a mark of gaining wisdom.
Realising you were wrong doesn’t mean you lack judgment. It means you lacked knowledge.
Opinions are what you think today. Growth comes from staying open to revising your views tomorrow.”
– Adam Grant

“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be – tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today would be the day; she listened for every sound, gave sudden starts, was surprised when nothing happened; and then, sadder with each succeeding sunset, she longed for tomorrow.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”
– William Blake

“If the version of you from 5 years ago could see you right now, they’d be so proud of you.
Keep going.”
– Unknown

“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian proverb

“The Forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”
– Turkish Proverb

“Whiteboards are remarkable.”
– Unknown