“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
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“Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.”
James Frey book A Million Little Pieces
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”
Philip Reeve book Here Lies Arthur
Source: Here Lies Arthur
“the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
Ayn Rand book The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Source: The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971), p. 123
“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
Variant: Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
Source: The Odyssey
“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
Anita Shreve (1946–2018) American writer
“Oh my god you're thicker than you look”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: The Faceless Ones
“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
H 23
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
“The peasantry are wiser in their ignorance than the savants of St Petersburg in their learning.”
William Barrett (philosopher) book Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Six, The Flight From Laputa, p. 128
“There are various uses for time, and I have better ones than this.”
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) American writer
The End of Summer, p. 23
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”
Peter Stuyvesant (1612–1672) Dutch politician
History of the State of New York By John Romeyn Brodhead, pg 508 : 1660 on the education of Youth.
“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
Address at Evanston Illinois (8 August 1954)
““It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,” she explained.”
Agatha Christie book Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)