"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” Lao Tzu

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew, we must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.” Abraham Lincoln

“If revolution there is to be, let us undertake it, rather than undergo it.” Otto von Bismarck

“Bad decisions make for good stories.” Anonymous

"Success  consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill

“Detachment is not owning anything, it's about nothing owning you”. Baghavata Gita

"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it." Henry Kissinger

"Time without consciousness—lower animal world; time with consciousness—man; consciousness without time—some still higher state." Vladimir Nabokov

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn't matter.” Mark Twain

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” Albert Einstein

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” Bruce Lee

“We need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable.” Oscar Wilde

"But we are not only here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system — with all these exalted powers — Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." Charles Darwin

“Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to be known and understood.” Albert Einstein

“Chocolate is nature's way to make up for Mondays.” Anonymous

"All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action." Gandhi

“The key to economic prosperity is organized creation of dissatisfaction...if everyone were satisfied no one would want to buy the new thing.” Charles Kettering

“Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.” HG Wells

“I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.” Neil de Grasse Tyson

“The risk not taken is more dangerous than the risk taken.” Andy Dunn

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all beings.” Hermann Hesse

“You miss one-hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzsky

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” Winston Churchill

“The last invention that biological evolution needed to make - the neocortex- is inevitably leading to the last invention that humanity needs to make - truly intelligent machines- and the design of one is inspiring the other.” Ray Kurzweil

“Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.” Aristotle 

“He who has no goals must endure his fate; he who has a purpose can shape it.” Immanuel Kant

“There is no difference between fear that the hero and the coward feel the difference in what they do.” Ben Horowitz

“I am not what I think of me. I am not what you think of me. I am what I think you think of me.” Baghavata Gita

“Human progress depends upon the socially maladjusted.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world, the unreasonable man adapts the world to them.” George Bernard Shaw

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.” Ralph Charell

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela

“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” Horace Mann

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.” Christopher Hitchens

“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.” Goethe

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.” Oscar Wilde

“And it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Bacon, a Charles Darwin, and an Einstein. Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things.” John Steinbeck

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” Andre Gide

“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” Albert Einstein

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw