“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
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“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
Context: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Source: book Man's Search For Meaning
“Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Source: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe
“God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.”
Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
