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Terry Pratchett Fotografia
Marcus Aurelius Fotografia

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

Marcus Aurelius książka Rozmyślania

Źródło: VII, 8 (Penguin Classics edition of Meditations, translated by Maxwell Staniforth)

Guy De Maupassant Fotografia
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Eleanor Roosevelt Fotografia

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1972) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 5

Peter F. Drucker Fotografia

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”
Problemem w moim życiu i w życiu innych ludzi nie jest brak wiedzy, co robić, ale nie robienie tego.

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Joseph Brodsky Fotografia

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Misattributed

Marcus Aurelius Fotografia

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

Marcus Aurelius książka Rozmyślania

Źródło: Meditations

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

In Reader's Digest (December 1954).
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Wariant: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Abraham Lincoln Fotografia

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Letter to Edwin Stanton (14 July 1864); published in Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) by John Hay
1860s

Stephen King Fotografia

“It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Źródło: Wolves of the Calla

Paulo Coelho Fotografia

“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”

Paulo Coelho książka Zwycięzca jest sam

Źródło: The Winner Stands Alone

Viktor E. Frankl Fotografia

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

Viktor E. Frankl książka Człowiek w poszukiwaniu sensu

Źródło: Man's Search for Meaning

Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
C.G. Jung Fotografia
Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.”
Nauczyłam się chodzić jako dziecko i od tego czasu nie miałam zadnej lekcji.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Terry Pratchett Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia
Jean Paul Sartre Fotografia

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Jack Kerouac Fotografia

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

This is not a quote by Kerouac. It's a quote by CBS broadcaster Charles Kuralt who used to present a TV news segment called 'On the Road' (which is probably how the confusion arose). This particular statement by Kuralt was made in May 1996 to students of Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19960527&id=yf8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yQcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3106,5606314
Misattributed

Franz Kafka Fotografia
W.B. Yeats Fotografia

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Wariant: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Mark Twain Fotografia
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

Oscar Wilde Salome

le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Źródło: Salomé (1893)

Stephen King Fotografia

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Abraham Lincoln Fotografia
Jane Austen Fotografia
Abraham Lincoln Fotografia

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Recollection by Gilbert J. Greene, quoted in The Speaking Oak (1902) by Ferdinand C. Iglehart and Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln (1917) by Ervin S. Chapman
Posthumous attributions

Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Eleanor Roosevelt Fotografia

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Mark Twain Fotografia
C.G. Jung Fotografia

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Nauczmy się okazywać przyjaźń człowiekowi, kiedy żyje, a nie, kiedy umrze.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Źródło: The Great Gatsby (1925), ch. 9

Francois Mauriac Fotografia
Norman Vincent Peale Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Historia się nie powtarza, lecz rymuje.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Origins unclear. Earliest known match in print comes from 1970, in a collection called “Neo Poems” by Canadian artist John Robert Colombo, who recalled reading it sometime in the 1960s. Twain did say "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends." in the 1874 edition of “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day”. A thematic precursor, "History May Not Repeat, But It Looks Alike", appears in a 1941 article by Chicago Tribune in Illinois. (Source: Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/)
Misattributed

Mark Twain Fotografia

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

marginal note in Moncure D. Conway's Sacred Anthology
quoted by Albert Bigelow Paine in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

Mark Twain Fotografia
Aristotle Fotografia

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Aristotle książka Polityka

Book II, Section VI ( translation http://archive.org/stream/aristotlespolit00aris#page/69/mode/1up by Benjamin Jowett)
Politics
Kontekst: One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Terry Pratchett Fotografia
John Lennon Fotografia

“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. Of this incident Mark Hertsgaard reports in A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (1995): "The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre-performance threat to tell them to "rattle their fuckin' jewelry."

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Kristin Hannah książka The Nightingale

Źródło: The Nightingale

Bob Dylan Fotografia

“Play it fuckin' loud!”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
John Lennon Fotografia
Walter Benjamin Fotografia

“History is written by the victors.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Zig Ziglar Fotografia
Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.support.depression/wYH4aCNHyp4/_d50yuXTeHsJ
Disputed

Leonardo Da Vinci Fotografia

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

No published occurrence of such an attribution has yet been located prior to one in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre — Band 3 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2411/pg2411.html by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disputed
Wariant: Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Abraham Lincoln Fotografia

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
Ilekroć słyszę, jak ktoś opowiada się za niewolnictwem, odczuwam silny impuls, by wypróbowano je na nim.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Peter Ustinov Fotografia
Eckhart Tolle Fotografia

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Źródło: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Wariant: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.

Rainer Maria Rilke Fotografia

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Wariant: For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Źródło: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Kontekst: People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Jane Austen Fotografia

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

Jane Austen książka Mansfield Park

Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
Misattributed
Źródło: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:

Ernest Hemingway Fotografia

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

Ernest Hemingway książka A Moveable Feast

Źródło: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 2
Kontekst: I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."

Paul McCartney Fotografia
Martin Luther King, Jr. Fotografia

“We must keep moving. If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

"Keep Moving from this Mountain" http://www5.spelman.edu/about_us/news/pdf/70622_messenger.pdf – Founders Day Address at the Sisters Chapel, Spelman College (11 April 1960)
1960s

Bertrand Russell Fotografia

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

As quoted in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 37 (1940), p. 90; no specific source given.
Disputed
Wariant: In all affairs – love, religion, politics, or business – it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Mark Twain Fotografia

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
Wszystko, czego potrzebujesz w życiu, to niewiedza i pewność siebie, a wtedy sukces jest pewny.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Mark Twain's Notebook, 1887
Letter to Cordelia Welsh Foote (Cincinnati), 2 December 1887. Letter reprinted http://www.twainquotes.com/Success.html in Benjamin De Casseres's When Huck Finn Went Highbrow https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-huck-finn-went-highbrow/oclc/2514292 (1934)

Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia
Bertrand Russell Fotografia

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Źródło: Unpopular Essays

Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Źródło: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose

Robert T. Kiyosaki Fotografia

“What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself…”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Źródło: Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

Mark Twain Fotografia

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XV
Misquoted as "Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." by Laurence J. Peter in "Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time", among many others.
Following the Equator (1897)
Źródło: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

John Steinbeck Fotografia

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

John Steinbeck książka Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Źródło: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Wariant: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

George Carlin Fotografia
Leonardo Da Vinci Fotografia

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Mark Twain Fotografia

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed

Paulo Coelho Fotografia
Terry Pratchett Fotografia
Sigmund Freud Fotografia
Benjamin Disraeli Fotografia
Jack Kerouac Fotografia
Albert Einstein cytat: “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1950s
Kontekst: In matters concerning truth and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small; for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

(1955) as quoted in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1997) ed. , p. 388, from The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (1979)

Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“All art is quite useless.”

Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wariant: All art is immoral.

Immanuel Kant Fotografia

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

Immanuel Kant książka Critique of Pure Reason

B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Wariant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Źródło: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

Blaise Pascal Fotografia
Mark Twain Fotografia

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
Kiedy jesteś zły, policz do czterech. Kiedy jesteś bardzo zły, przeklinaj.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Oscar Wilde Fotografia

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20

Giacomo Leopardi Fotografia

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”

Giacomo Leopardi książka Zibaldone

Źródło: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827

Henry David Thoreau Fotografia
Friedrich Nietzsche Fotografia

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Oscar Wilde Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Wariant: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Charlie Chaplin Fotografia

“You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Lyrics to "Smile", written by John Turner and Geoffrey Claremont Parsons in 1954, the music of which was composed by Chaplin in 1936. - "Smile" music, as used in Modern Times (1936) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6ck1ejoAw - "Smile" tribute to Chaplin, as sung by Michael Jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-rLA4POkI
Misattributed
Kontekst: Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile with your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll find that life is still worthwhile If you just
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile.

Thomas Mann Fotografia

“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate

Źródło: Essays of Three Decades (1942)

Albert Schweitzer Fotografia

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Wariant: Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Fotografia

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)

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