Quotes for July 1150 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.3 · 19 votes · 152 reads

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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 26 reads

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• Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 139 reads

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 128 reads

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• Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 106 reads

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• Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 139 reads

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• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 150 reads

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• He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 144 reads

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• I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 138 reads

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• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 97 reads

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• I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 158 reads

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• I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 146 reads

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• If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 37 reads

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• If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 53 votes · 139 reads

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• It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  4.5 · 59 votes · 70 reads

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 174 reads

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 42 reads

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• Man is not made for defeat.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 169 reads

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• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 140 reads

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• Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 129 reads

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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 76 reads

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• Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 99 reads

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• Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 103 reads

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• Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 32 votes · 133 reads

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 84 reads

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• Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.6 · 55 votes · 117 reads

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• Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 37 votes · 68 reads

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• The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 101 reads

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• The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 0 reads

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• The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 135 reads

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• There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 60 reads

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• There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 146 reads

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• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.6 · 63 votes · 156 reads

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• There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendshi

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.8 · 46 votes · 109 reads

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• There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.0 · 8 votes · 8 reads

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• They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 87 reads

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• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 63 reads

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• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 45 reads

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• To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 181 reads

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• Travel teaches tolerance.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 198 reads

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• Usually we praise only to be praised.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 111 reads

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• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 6 reads

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• We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 193 reads

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• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 181 reads

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• We pardon to the extent that we love.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 60 reads

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• When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.0 · 24 votes · 134 reads

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• When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  4.3 · 7 votes · 26 reads

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• Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 90 reads

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• You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 198 reads

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