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Bob Marley photo
Kurt Cobain photo

“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”

Source: Journals (2002), p. 124

Omar Mukhtar photo

“I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.”

Omar Mukhtar (1858–1931) Libyan resistance leader

Trial proceedings (15 September 1931)

Nikola Tesla photo

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)

André Gide photo
Virginia Woolf photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Taylor Swift photo

“Every time you smile, I smile
And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.”

Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter

Jump Then Fall, Fearless: Platinum Edition (2009).
Song lyrics

Al Capone photo

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster

Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/
Disputed
Variant: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Lewis Carroll photo

“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Tupac Shakur photo
Marie Curie photo

“Scientist believe in things, not in person”

Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
Lewis Carroll photo
Kobe Bryant photo
Paul Ricoeur quote: “I find myself only by losing myself.”
Paul Ricoeur photo
Rajneesh photo

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
Vincent Van Gogh photo

“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Quote in Vincent's letter, from Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh : The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17
Variant translations: The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
As quoted in Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By (1999) by Mary Engelbreit
I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
1880s, 1888
Variant: There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Kālidāsa photo
Audre Lorde photo

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Source: Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

Timothy Leary photo

“Think for yourself and question authority.”

Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist

Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)