The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
—Blaise Pascal (French Catholic Mathematician)
You’ll likely learn more of enduring value from an hour of wise googling than from any course.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.
—Austin Phelps (American Presbyterian Clergyman)
The love of money is the root of all evil.
—The Holy Bible (Scripture in the Christian Faith)
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
—Robert A. Heinlein (American Novelist)
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
—George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher)
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
—Andrew Grove (Hungarian-born American Businessperson)
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
—Laurence J. Peter (Canadian-born American Educator)
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
—Alvin Toffler
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews. The ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
—William Faulkner (American Novelist)
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
—Herbert Spencer (English Polymath)