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“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”
Source: Journals (2002), p. 124
“I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.”
Trial proceedings (15 September 1931)
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”
“Every time you smile, I smile
And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.”
Jump Then Fall, Fearless: Platinum Edition (2009).
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“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
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.
“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“Scientist believe in things, not in person”
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
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.
“Think for yourself and question authority.”
Timothy Leary's track on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)