“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
- Chinese proverb”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer
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“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”
William Shakespeare As You Like It
Source: As You Like It
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
“We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
This has commonly been attributed to Orwell but has not been found in any of his writings. Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/ found the earliest known appearance in a 1993 Washington Times essay by Richard Grenier: "As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." The absence of quotation marks indicates Grenier was using his own words to convey Orwell's opinion; thus it may have originated as a paraphrase of his statement in "Notes on Nationalism" https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwelnat.htm (May 1945): "Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf." There are also similar sentiments expressed in an essay which Orwell wrote on Rudyard Kipling, quoting from one of Kipling's poems: "Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep." In the same essay Orwell also wrote of Kipling: "He sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them." <br class="br">Misattributed