Quotes for January 2047 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 10 votes · 125 reads

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• A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 97 reads

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• Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 71 reads

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• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 49 reads

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• An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 162 reads

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 18 reads

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• Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 173 reads

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• Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

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  Eugene Ionesco

  PlaywrightFrench1909 · 20th century

  3.9 · 61 votes · 60 reads

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• Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 53 votes · 89 reads

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 163 reads

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• Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 19 votes · 17 reads

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• Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Con

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 57 votes · 12 reads

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• Follow your own star!

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 26 reads

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• Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 9 reads

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• Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 20 votes · 42 reads

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• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 49 votes · 137 reads

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.2 · 40 votes · 81 reads

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• I don't believe in the electric cars, but I strongly believe in hybrids.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 82 reads

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• I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 110 reads

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• If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 60 reads

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• If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 157 reads

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• In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 174 reads

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• Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 97 reads

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• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 148 reads

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• No man fails who does his best...

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 113 reads

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• Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 181 reads

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• Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 43 votes · 157 reads

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• Peace must be more than the absence of war.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 104 reads

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• Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the f

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 200 reads

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• Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 46 votes · 177 reads

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• Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 56 reads

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• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 99 reads

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• The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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• The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.2 · 17 votes · 107 reads

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• The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 51 votes · 124 reads

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 11 reads

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• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 107 reads

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.0 · 19 votes · 191 reads

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 161 reads

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• Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 117 reads

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• We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 167 reads

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• We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 37 reads

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• Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 125 reads

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• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.7 · 58 votes · 79 reads

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• What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 159 reads

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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 27 reads

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