He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

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Cassandra Clare

What editors are obliged to appear to say that want from women is actually what their want from women.

Naomi Wolf

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Vinton Cerf

Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Og Mandino

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

Victor Hugo, Les Mis, 1862

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Benjamin J. Montalbano

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Chris Rock

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Jocko Willink

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Thomas B. Macaulay

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.

Blaise Pascal