Overzicht van 280 Quotes

Author	Quote
deceased	„To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
	„Be so good they can’t ignore you.” -Steve Martin
deceased	„Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” -Edgar Allan Poe
	„There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked.” -Robert Mueller
deceased	„Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” -Hal Borland
deceased	„It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
deceased	„Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
deceased	„Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.” -Nikola Tesla
	„I’m at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you’re right - have fun.” -Keanu Reeves
deceased	„Sometimes you gain more from not winning but losing. Every loss is still a win.” -Roger Lee
deceased	„All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.” -Alan Watts
deceased	„You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -Buckminster Fuller
deceased	„There is nothing permanent except change.” -Heraclitus
deceased	„The soul is healed by being with children.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
deceased	„The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.” -Jürgen Habermas
	„Escape competition through authenticity.” -Naval Ravikant
deceased	„We live in a world where there is more and more information and less meaning.” -Jean Baudrillard
deceased	„Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire
deceased	„Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
deceased	„Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” -James Thurber
deceased	„If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.” -Coleman Hawkins
deceased	„I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.” -Richard Feynman
deceased	„Your identity is your prison.” -Etel Adnan
deceased	„Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” -Isaac Asimov
deceased	„The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
deceased	„I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.” -Anthony Bourdain
deceased	„Only the dead have seen the end of the war.” -George Santayana
	„The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.” -David Russell
deceased	„Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” -Savielly Tartakower
deceased	„Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves.” -Roy T. Bennett
deceased	„There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.” -David Hume
deceased	„I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.” -Anthony Bourdain
	„Ik ben een kletskous, en daar kan je aardig wat geld mee verdienen.” -Koos Postema
deceased	„A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” -George Savile
	„Change is never easy, but always possible.” -Barack Obama
deceased	„Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin
	„Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is always depressed.” -Bill Murray
deceased	„Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” -Will Rogers
deceased	„You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou
deceased	„It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” -André Gide
deceased	„The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” -Oscar Wilde
deceased	„True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” -Karl Popper
deceased	„All these people you are concerned about, did they create you?” -al-Ghazālī
deceased	„Without the ability to talk about government power, there’s no way for citizens to make sure this power isn’t being misused.” -Aaron Swartz
deceased	„We have no obligation to be the same person you were minutes ago.” -Alan Watts
deceased	„We learn something every day, and sometimes it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.” -Bill Vaughn
deceased	„The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.” -Richard Feynman
deceased	„I can resist everything except temptation.” -Oscar Wilde
deceased	„The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” -Arthur Conan Doyle
deceased	„Lost time is never found again.” -Benjamin Franklin
deceased	„Wie niet twijfelt, leert niet.” -Dirck Coornhert
deceased	„I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.” -Kabir
	„Know a man not by the loudness of his voice, but by the depth of his silence.” -Acharya Prashant
	„People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.” -Bill Murray
deceased	„The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” -Aldous Huxley
deceased	„The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
	„Anything that can be measured can be improved.” -Michael Dell
deceased	„Why is it that people with most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths” -Lewis Carroll
deceased	„If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” -Mark Twain
deceased	„I have to go, everybody has to go! Where the fuck does everybody go, when they have to go?” -Gia Marie Carangi (Gia)
deceased	„The more I see of men, the more I like my dog.” -Thomas Carlyle
	„Before you marry someone you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” -Will Ferrell
deceased	„I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.” -John Steinbeck
deceased	„It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” -Harry S. Truman
deceased	„Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.” -Charles Bukowski
deceased	„The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” -Mark Twain
	„It takes 20 years to build a reputation and few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.” -Stephane Nappo
deceased	„Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” -George Carlin
deceased	„Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” -Søren Kierkegaard
deceased	„None of the evils which totalitarianism claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.” -Albert Camus
deceased	„Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
deceased	„Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” -Carl Jung
deceased	„If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” -Carl Jung
deceased	„So it goes.” -Kurt Vonnegut
deceased	„We see what we believe rather than what we see.” -Alan Watts
deceased	„We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” -Henry Ward Beecher
deceased	„What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.” -Lord Bryon
deceased	„I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” -Richard Feynman
	„When you trust that you can shift your own anxiety or your own mind about something, then nothing is too big a problem.” -Philip Cohen
deceased	„Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” -Steve Jobs
deceased	„The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.” -Frank Zappa
	„The practise of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” -Marianne Williamson
deceased	„I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde
deceased	„The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.” -Rene Descartes
deceased	„All colours will agree in the dark.” -Francis Bacon
deceased	„Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.” -Ned Rorem
deceased	„The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.” -Ian Curtis
deceased	„Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.” -Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli)
deceased	„Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.” -Audrey Hepburn
deceased	„It’s what I do that teaches me what I’m looking for.” -Pierre Soulages
deceased	„Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ingnorance.” -George Bernard Shaw
deceased	„War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.” -Benjamin Franklin
deceased	„You become what you understand.” -Søren Kierkegaard
deceased	„The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” -James Baldwin
deceased	„Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw
deceased	„History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” -Mark Twain
	„If you know the system well enough, you can do things that aren’t supposed to be possible.” -Linus Torvalds
deceased	„When in doubt, don’t.” -Benjamin Franklin
deceased	„Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.” -Alan Watts
deceased	„The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” -Bob Marley
	„When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” -Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
deceased	„Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” -Carl Jung
deceased	„De wetenschap aller wetenschappen is weten dat je niets weet.” -Geert Grote
deceased	„You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -Winston Churchill
	„To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.” -Christine Caine
deceased	„Trust gets you killed, love gets you hurt and being real gets you hated.” -Johnny Cash
deceased	„Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” -Albert Einstein
deceased	„The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.” -Alexandre Dumas fils
	„I feel like I’m a better person when I’m quieter.” -Bill Murray
deceased	„When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.” -Edmund Burke
deceased	„Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” -John Wooden
deceased	„What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
deceased	„Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” -Niccolò Machiavelli
deceased	„A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be.” -Jack Welch
deceased	„Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” -Voltaire
	„You must tell yourself: No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.” -Les Brown
deceased	„To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” -Audrey Hepburn
deceased	„If god made you, why are you like this?” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
deceased	„Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” -André Gide
	„I like criticism. It makes you strong.” -LeBron James
deceased	„Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
deceased	„We’re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.” -Kurt Vonnegut
deceased	„Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” -Sam Walton
deceased	„Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” -Rudyard Kipling
	„The best way of learning about anything is by doing.” -Richard Branson
deceased	„When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” -Leo Tolstoy
deceased	„Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” -Salvador Dali
	„Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room.” -Michael Dell
	„All ideas grow out of other ideas.” -Anish Kapoor
deceased	„If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” -Vincent van Gogh
deceased	„Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.” -T. S. Elliot
deceased	„The future depends on what we do today.” -Indira Ghandi
deceased	„No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” -George Orwell (1984)
deceased	„I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” -Thomas Jefferson
	„We can’t control everything that happens to us. We can only control how we think about it and how we perceive it.” -Philip Cohen
deceased	„The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” -Niccolò Machiavelli
deceased	„Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” -Mark Twain
deceased	„In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost
deceased	„Always do what you are afraid to do.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
deceased	„Quiet people have the loudest minds.” -Stephen Hawking
deceased	„People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.” -Albert Camus
	„Everyone’s crazy anyway. And those who think they aren’t, are the ones who are even crazier - because they’re in denial.” -Michael Fassbender
deceased	„Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” -Anthony Bourdain
deceased	„Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” -Sigmund Freud
deceased	„The real source of “stress” is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe.” -David R. Hawkins
	„We’re all living in each other’s paranoia.” -Rami Malek (Elliot Alderson)
deceased	„The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.” -Gil Scott-Heron
deceased	„I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve of disapprove.” -Vincent van Gogh
deceased	„Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James Baldwin
deceased	„If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” -Roald Dahl
deceased	„I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.” -Robin Williams
deceased	„To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” -Oscar Wilde
deceased	„Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.” -George Carlin
deceased	„Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.” -Buckminster Fuller
deceased	„The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.” -Wayne Dyer
deceased	„Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
deceased	„Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” -John F. Kennedy
deceased	„Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” -Hunter S. Thompson
deceased	„Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers
deceased	„Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” -Buckminster Fuller
deceased	„Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” -Aldous Huxley
deceased	„If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” -Lao Tzu
deceased	„I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.” -Les Dawson
deceased	„Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Søren Kierkegaard
deceased	„Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch
deceased	„It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” -Ansel Adams
	„Being alone for a while is dangerous. It’s addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don’t want to deal with people anymore.” -Tom Hardy
deceased	„Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” -Francis Bacon
deceased	„The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full in doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” -Charles Bukowski
deceased	„In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” -Abraham Maslow
	„If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you’d stop living to impress people.” -Christopher Walken
deceased	„People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.” -Carl Jung
	„Niemand heeft het ooit gewonnen van de tijd.” -Michael Pilarczyk
	„Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden
	„One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.” -Julian Assange
	„You stop explaining yourself when you realize people only understand from their level of perception.” -Jim Carrey
	„Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane…” -Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding (The Shawshank Redemption)
deceased	„Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” -Charles Bukowski
deceased	„He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your wards.” -Elbert Hubbard
	„The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.” -Simon Sinek
	„I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.” -Tom Hanks
deceased	„Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” -Albert Camus
deceased	„Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” -Mark Twain
deceased	„Ik verkoop geen bier, ik verkoop gezelligheid.” -Freddy Heineken
deceased	„Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” -Albert Einstein
deceased	„Don’t waste your time looking back, you’re not going that way.” -Ragnar Lodbrok (Vikings)
deceased	„If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
deceased	„Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.” -Jürgen Habermas
deceased	„We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” -Omar Bradley
deceased	„I drink to make other people more interesting.” -Ernest Hemingway
deceased	„Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” -Oscar Wilde
deceased	„From error to error one discovers the entire truth.” -Sigmund Freud
deceased	„The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
	„All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.” -Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
deceased	„What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” -Charles Bukowski
deceased	„Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
	„The future is shit, just like the past.” -Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
deceased	„Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” -Isaac Asimov
deceased	„Could it think, the heart would stop beating.” -Fernando Pessoa
deceased	„If you wish for peace, understand war.” -B.H. Linddel Hart
deceased	„It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
deceased	„All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
deceased	„Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein
deceased	„If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” -Harry S. Truman
deceased	„I don’t know what the future holds. All I know is, I’m good today. Real good.” -Chris Farley
deceased	„Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.” -Vincent Van Gogh
deceased	„In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus
deceased	„The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation.” -Terence McKenna
deceased	„Don’t be afraid. You’re going to make it, but it’s always going to feel as if you’re not. That’s the fun, you see!” -Alan Watts
	„Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.” -Bill Murray
	„We zijn allemaal waarnemers van de tijd.” -Jort Kollerie
deceased	„Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” -Albert Camus
deceased	„If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” -Albert Einstein
deceased	„In individuals insanity is rare. But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
	„Every next level of your life will demand a different you.” -Leonardo DiCaprio
deceased	„The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on the longest are your friends. I don’t mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren’t any of those.” -Raymond Chandler
deceased	„Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” -Jimi Hendrix
	„The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen.” -Simon Sinek
deceased	„It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” -Steve Jobs
deceased	„Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” -Richard Feynman
deceased	„Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” -Hunter S. Thompson
deceased	„He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” -George Orwell (1984)
	„A mad man sees what he sees.” -Ned Stark (Game of Thrones)
	„Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.” -Yoko Ono
deceased	„The idea that a movie should be seen only once is an extension of our traditional conception of film as entertainment rather then art.” -Stanley Kubrick
deceased	„It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” -Alan Watts
deceased	„Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.” -Alan Watts
deceased	„Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.” -Albert Einstein
deceased	„We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” -David Lynch
deceased	„Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” -Roy T. Bennett
deceased	„Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” -Oscar Wilde
deceased	„Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” -Søren Kierkegaard
deceased	„Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” -Mark Twain
deceased	„A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” -Frank Zappa
deceased	„The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.” -Edgar Allan Poe
deceased	„There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
deceased	„They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” -Carl W. Buehner
	„Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.” -Bruce Schneier
deceased	„We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.” -Sigmund Freud
deceased	„The possession of anything begins in the mind.” -Bruce Lee
deceased	„Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” -Primo Levi
deceased	„The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
	„You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.” -Bullet-Tooth Tony (Snatch)
	„By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.” -Robert Bringhurst
	„Did I have to drink my own urine today?” -Aron Ralston
	„People leave managers, not companies.” -Marcus Buckingham
	„Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” -Warren Buffet
deceased	„A good friend will always stab you in the front.” -Oscar Wilde
	„Als je in je geest investeert, wordt je lichaam vanzelf beter beheerd.” -Midas Dekkers
deceased	„Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.” -John Wooden

Overzicht van 280 Quotes

„To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

„Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

-Steve Martin

„Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”

-Edgar Allan Poe

„There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked.”

-Robert Mueller

„Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”

-Hal Borland

„It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

„Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

„Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.”

-Nikola Tesla

„I’m at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you’re right - have fun.”

-Keanu Reeves

„Sometimes you gain more from not winning but losing. Every loss is still a win.”

-Roger Lee

„All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.”

-Alan Watts

„You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

-Buckminster Fuller

„There is nothing permanent except change.”

-Heraclitus

„The soul is healed by being with children.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

„The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.”

-Jürgen Habermas

„Escape competition through authenticity.”

-Naval Ravikant

„We live in a world where there is more and more information and less meaning.”

-Jean Baudrillard

„Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

-Voltaire

„Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

„Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

-James Thurber

„If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”

-Coleman Hawkins

„I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.”

-Richard Feynman

„Your identity is your prison.”

-Etel Adnan

„Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

-Isaac Asimov

„The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

„I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

-Anthony Bourdain

„Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”

-George Santayana

„The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

-David Russell

„Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”

-Savielly Tartakower

„Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves.”

-Roy T. Bennett

„There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”

-David Hume

„I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.”

-Anthony Bourdain

„Ik ben een kletskous, en daar kan je aardig wat geld mee verdienen.”

-Koos Postema

„A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.”

-George Savile

„Change is never easy, but always possible.”

-Barack Obama

„Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that.”

-George Carlin

„Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is always depressed.”

-Bill Murray

„Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”

-Will Rogers

„You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.”

-Maya Angelou

„It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”