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The World’s Greatest Quotes Collection

I’m a big fan of quotes. I collected of them over the years. Here I share all of them with you.

If you want to submit some of yours, be my guest.

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What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile?

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", p. 27, 1995

Stories can entertain, sometimes teach or argue a point. But for me the essential thing is that they communicate feelings.

My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture

Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does to us?

In the Presence of Absence

Only he deserves freedom and life who daily conquers them anew.

We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.

PEOPLE, 1977

Most people suffer from the fear of finding themselves alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Love and Will, p. 131, 1969

Risk taking is the highest virtue, the only signal that you cannot fake.

Antifragile, p. 101, 2012

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, 1841

If you hate someone, then you are defeated by him.

Analects, 13:25

What people criticise in you, cultivate. It is you.

Opium: Diary of a Cure, 1930

Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, p. 260, 1981

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part Three, 'Of Old and New Tablets', 1885

Education does not cure stupidity; it arms it.

Scholia inedita, p. 158

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction, p. 140, 2011

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Man's Search for Meaning, p. 104, 1946