Quotes for July 752 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 7: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 41 votes · 189 reads

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• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 98 reads

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• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.0 · 53 votes · 88 reads

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• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 175 reads

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• A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: ''By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.''

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 39 votes · 8 reads

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• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.5 · 28 votes · 43 reads

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• An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 32 reads

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• Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 45 votes · 71 reads

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• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 22 reads

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• Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 156 reads

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the exe

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 134 reads

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• I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 11 reads

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• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 156 reads

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• I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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• If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 52 votes · 155 reads

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• Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 118 reads

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• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 26 reads

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• In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 194 reads

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• In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 146 reads

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• It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.2 · 30 votes · 60 reads

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• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.0 · 19 votes · 49 reads

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• Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -the rest will be given.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 186 reads

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• Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

  

  Thomas Jefferson

  PoliticianAmerican1743 · 18th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 119 reads

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• Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 72 reads

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• Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 152 reads

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• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the visi

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 174 reads

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• Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 33 reads

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• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 37 reads

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• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 64 reads

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• Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 43 votes · 98 reads

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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 26 votes · 169 reads

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• The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 85 reads

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 21 reads

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 62 reads

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• The legs are the wheels of creativity.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 80 reads

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• The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes v

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 131 reads

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• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 94 reads

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• There are two kinds of people in the world - those you love, and those you don't understand.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 29 votes · 104 reads

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• There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 15 votes · 84 reads

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• There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things b

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  4.8 · 15 votes · 105 reads

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• There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.2 · 15 votes · 166 reads

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• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 63 reads

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• There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 159 reads

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• Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 30 votes · 21 reads

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• We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.0 · 58 votes · 178 reads

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• What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 50 reads

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• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 91 reads

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• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 13 reads

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• Women. They are a complete mystery.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 22 reads

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• Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

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  Paul Gauguin

  PainterFrench1848 · 19th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 183 reads

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