30 Famous Thoughts By Astute Minds

[Joe Carillo]

30 Famous Thoughts By Astute Minds

This collection of 30 provocative and witty quotes from some of the world's most astute minds during the past three centuries should help deepen our understanding and appreciation of the power of ideas, of a healthy sense of humor, and of novel ways of looking at things.


1. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”—Thomas Alva Edison


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2. “God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”—Voltaire

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3. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”—Sir Winston Churchill

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4. “The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”—George Bernard Shaw

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5. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”—Mark Twain

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6. “Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.”—Albert Einstein

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7. “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”—Mark Twain

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8. “Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl—no superior alternative has yet been found.”—Sir Winston Churchill


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9. “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”—William James

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10. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”—Arthur Schopenhauer

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11. “Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”—Samuel Johnson

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12. “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”—Napoleon Bonaparte

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13. “Want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details.”—Albert Einstein

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14. “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”—James Branch Cabell


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15.” In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”—Martin Luther King Jr.

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16. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”—Mohandas K. Gandhi

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17. “We have art to save ourselves from the truth.”—Friedrich Nietzsche

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18. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”—Napoleon Bonaparte

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19. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”—H. G. Wells

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20. “Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.”—Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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21. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”—Dr. Napoleon Hill


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22. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”—Mother Teresa

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23. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”—Thomas Paine

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24. “Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.”—Jimmy Durante

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25. “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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26. “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”—Jean-Paul Sartre

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27. “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”—Will Durant


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28. “When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”—Friedrich Nietzsche

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29. “A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”—Michael Garrett Marino

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30. “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”—Oscar Wilde

—From Smilespedia.com's Encyclopedia of Humor