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Golda Meir photo

“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”

Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel

Fallaci interview (1973)

Anne Brontë photo

“I will not allow myself to be worse than my fellows.”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVII : The Neighbour Again; Walter to Helen

Alfred North Whitehead photo

“Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.”

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher

1920s, The Aims of Education (1929)
Context: For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

W. Sterling Cole photo

“It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it.”

W. Sterling Cole (1904–1987) American politician

Statement, 9 March 1954. Quoted in Peter G Boyle's The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-55

“Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.”

Marion L. Starkey (1901–1991) American historian & writer

Source: The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials (1949), Chapter 22, “We Walked in Clouds” (p. 268)

Emil M. Cioran photo

“Maybe suffering has no more justification than life.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Richard Rohr photo

“Transformation is often more about UNLEARNING than learning.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward

Vincent Van Gogh photo

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”

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

Not by van Gogh, but from Emile Zola's novel The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
Misattributed

Elon Musk photo

“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong; than pessimistic and right.”

Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur

Source: Elon Musk Quotes https://quotepico.com/quotes?author=elon-musk

Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo

“More black than ash-buds in the front of March.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

The Gardener's Daughter, line 28, from Poems (1842)

Billie Joe Armstrong photo

“Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.”

Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist

“I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.”

Джерард Артур Уэй (1977)

“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.”

Элла Уилер Уилкокс (1850–1919)
Pablo Neruda photo

“Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy""""?”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“The only thing better than singing is more singing. ”

Элла Джейн Фицджеральд (1917–1996)
Jack Vance photo

“I’d rather be a live pessimist than a dead comedian.”

Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer

Source: Short fiction, Future Tense (1964), Sail 25 (p. 93)

Larry Niven photo

“A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals.”

Larry Niven book A Hole in Space

Source: Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974), The Fourth Profession (p. 167)

Jay Samit photo

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)