If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. - Albert Schweitzer
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. - Voltaire
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. - Rumi
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness. - Lao Tzu
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. - Sigmund Freud
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. - Ayn Rand
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythagoras
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. - Haruki Murakami
Let my hands be seen from outside my coffin so that all may see Suleiman the Magnificent, the ruler of this world, even he leaves for the other world empty-handed. - Suleiman the Magnificent
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. - Benjamin Disraeli
Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws . . . . THE RICH AND THE POOR. - Benjamin Disraeli
Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself. - Napoleon Bonaparte
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. - Shakespeare
A house divided against itself cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln