A personal project

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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I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Letters from a Stoic, Letter 104, Seneca

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, page 73, 2011

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena, "On Politeness", 1851

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

A Moveable Feast, 1964

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

The Vision: Reflections on the Way to the Soul, p. 43, 1994

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

A Life in Letters, p. 306, 2007

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.

Letter to Theo van Gogh, October 22, 1882

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Cosmos, p. 281, 1980

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.

The 48 Laws of Power, Law 3, 1998

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.