Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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If you think you know a lot and understand a lot, be certain that there is much more that you don't know.

Thomas à Kempis

Thomas à Kempis

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Don't trust your feelings, because no matter what they are now, they will soon have changed.

Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy

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In politics, it's like in mathematics: everything that is not completely correct is wrong.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Children are the most important resource in the world and the best hope for the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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A great democracy must progress or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Man suffers few evils, except those which he himself attracts through the abuse of his faculties.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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How pleasant it would be a world in which no one was allowed to operate in the stock market unless they had passed an exam in Greek economics and poetry, and in which politicians were required to have a solid knowledge of history and modern novels!

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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I oppose all superstition, whether Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or Buddhist.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The most enlightened among the Greeks held that slavery was justifiable as long as the masters were Greek and the slaves were barbarians, but the opposite case was contrary to nature.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The conclusion is that we know very little, and yet it is amazing how much we know. Even more amazing is that such little knowledge can yield so much power.