In this era of superficiality, sharp quotes cut through the notion that wisdom must only exist in complicated formats.
This is a selection of some of my favorites.
“When in doubt, cite.”
– APA citation guidelines
“He collected all the opinions to demonstrate how few they are.”
– Canetti
“Slow down, I’m in a hurry.”
– Augustus
“Hunger is the best sauce.”
– Socrates
“Depth is the greatest of heights”
– Fiona Apple
“Do not reject, prefer.“
– Nicolas Gomez-Davila
“I do not seek, I find.”
– Picasso
“The only way out is through.”
– Frost
“Think global, act local.”
– Dubos
“The second mouse gets the cheese.”
– Anon
“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
– Heidegger
“No one can disarm a naked man.”
– Anon
“The devil is in the details.”
– English Proverb
“When you get there, there is no there, there.”
– Stein
“Know thyself.”
– Delphic Maxim
“What you resist, persist.”
– English Proverb
”Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose.”
– Jung
“May the bridges I burn light the way.”
– Johannessen
“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
– Lincoln
“If you suffer injustices, comfort yourself, for the true misfortune is to commit them.”
– Pythagoras
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.”
– Camus
“Even if humility could not save us from hell, it would at least save us from ridicule.”
– Nicolas Gomez-Davila
“The only history I care about is the history I am making today.”
– Henry Ford
“The tongue endures because it is soft; the teeth break because they are hard.”
– Chinese Proverb
“They tried to bury me, but they didn’t know I was a seed.”
– Christianopoulos
“The most disarmed tenderness, as well as the bloodiest of powers, need confession.”
– Foucault
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
– Watts
“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
– Mark Twain
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
– Winnie the Pooh