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Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”

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

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. First known appearance is in a 1992 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rec.arts.comics.misc/EMj3ZowKq1U/E0dsEBwdZEgJ.
Misattributed
Źródło: Google books link https://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=average+voter#v=snippet&q=average%20voter&f=false

Wayne W. Dyer Fotografia

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Wariant: You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Confucius Fotografia

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Margaret Cousins Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Celem życia nie jest bycie szczęśliwym. Chodzi o to, aby być użytecznym, prawym, współczującym; aby to, że się żyło i żyło dobrze, miało jakieś znaczenie.

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

Attributed to Emerson in Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2000) by H. Jackson Brown Jr., as well as numerous on-line sources since, the article "The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy But To Matter" at the Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/29/purpose/ indicates that this quote is probably derived from various statements first made by Leo Rosten, including the following words delivered at the National Book Awards held in New York in 1962: "The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."
Misattributed

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
To wszystko sprawi, że uwierzycie, nieprawdaż ?

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Erich Fromm Fotografia

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

Erich Fromm książka O sztuce miłości

Wariant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Źródło: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

Jean Paul Sartre Fotografia

“Hell is—other people!”

Wariant: Hell is others.
Źródło: No Exit

Will Rogers Fotografia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fotografia

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Wariant: Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Kontekst: I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

Charles Baudelaire Fotografia
Robert Fulghum Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia
Richard Bach Fotografia
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia
Maya Angelou Fotografia
Paulo Coelho Fotografia
Confucius Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

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

Źródło: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Kariera to piękna rzecz, ale nie możesz się do niej przytulić w zimną noc.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Wariant: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Źródło: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53

Ansel Adams Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

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

Źródło: Self-Reliance

Robert A. Heinlein Fotografia
Ambrose Bierce Fotografia

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Źródło: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

John F. Kennedy Fotografia

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9100&st=&st1=
1962

George Bernard Shaw Fotografia

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
Pesymista? Ktoś, kto uważa, że wszyscy są tacy wredni jak on, i za to ich nienawidzi.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Desmond Tutu Fotografia

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

Charles Bukowski Fotografia
Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”

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

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Wariant: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Źródło: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success

Albert Einstein Fotografia
Thomas Aquinas Fotografia
John Dewey Fotografia

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
Misc. Quotes
Źródło: The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

Muhammad Ali Fotografia

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Kontekst: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
To, kim jesteś, krzyczy tak głośno, że nie słyszę, co mówisz.

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

Wariant: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Thich Nhat Hanh Fotografia

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Źródło: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Paulo Coelho Fotografia

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”

Paulo Coelho książka Brida

Źródło: Brida (1990).
Kontekst: When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Anaïs Nin Fotografia
Anaïs Nin Fotografia
George Bernard Shaw Fotografia

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Źródło: The Quintessence of Ibsenism

Jane Austen Fotografia
Agatha Christie Fotografia

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Wariant: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Arthur Conan Doyle Fotografia

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Źródło: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man

Franz Kafka Fotografia
Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Marzenie o byciu aktorką jest bardziej ekscytujące niż bycie jedna z nich.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Leo Tolstoy Fotografia

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Leo Tolstoy książka Anna Karenina

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Wariant: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Źródło: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Marcus Aurelius Fotografia
George Bernard Shaw Fotografia
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Źródło: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jane Austen Fotografia

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

Jane Austen książka Rozważna i romantyczna

Źródło: Sense and Sensibility

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

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

Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Jane Austen Fotografia

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Źródło: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

John Steinbeck Fotografia

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

John Steinbeck książka Na wschód od Edenu

Źródło: East of Eden (1952)
Kontekst: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Kontekst: In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Milan Kundera Fotografia

“There is no perfection only life”

Milan Kundera książka Nieznośna lekkość bytu

Źródło: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Winston S. Churchill Fotografia
Robert A. Heinlein Fotografia

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Źródło: Time Enough for Love

Sören Kierkegaard Fotografia

“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
To zupełnie prawdziwe, jak mówią filozofowie, że życie należy rozumieć wstecz. Ale zapominają o innej tezie, że trzeba je przeżyć naprzód.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Journals IV A 164 (1843)
See Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, by Dermot Moran (2002)
Variants:
We live forward, but we understand backward.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

Martin Luther King, Jr. Fotografia

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

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

1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Kontekst: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Albert Einstein Fotografia
Jack Kerouac Fotografia

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
Misattributed

F. Scott Fitzgerald Fotografia

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald książka This Side of Paradise

Źródło: This Side of Paradise

Henry David Thoreau Fotografia

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Alexander Pope Fotografia

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Źródło: An Essay on Criticism (1711)

Lou Holtz Fotografia

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

Wariant: Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Confucius Fotografia
Albert Einstein Fotografia
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fotografia
P.G. Wodehouse Fotografia
Woody Allen Fotografia

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Jedyne czego żałuję w życiu, to tego, że nie jestem kimś innym.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Francis Bacon Fotografia

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”

Francis Bacon książka The Advancement of Learning

Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Źródło: The Advancement Of Learning
Kontekst: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
Chcę się zestarzeć bez liftingu. Chcę mieć odwagę być lojalnym wobec twarzy, którą zrobiłam.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Albert Einstein Fotografia

“My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”

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

1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Kontekst: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“I read poetry to save time.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Milan Kundera Fotografia

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

Milan Kundera książka Nieznośna lekkość bytu

Źródło: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

Charles Baudelaire Fotografia

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
Wariant: Genius is nothing but youth recaptured.
Źródło: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Paulo Coelho Fotografia

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

Paulo Coelho książka Jedenaście minut

Źródło: Eleven Minutes

Richard Bach Fotografia

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Źródło: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Edward de Bono Fotografia
Agatha Christie Fotografia
Francis Bacon Fotografia

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Colin Powell Fotografia

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
Unikaj wiązania swojego ego z pozycją społeczną, bo kiedy utracisz to stanowisko, utracisz również swoją samoocenę.

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Wariant: You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Marilyn Monroe Fotografia

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Wariant: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Fotografia

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam

Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

John Steinbeck Fotografia

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