Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

#760 · Rabindranath Tagore

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

#759 · Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

#758 · Rabindranath Tagore

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

#757 · Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

#756 · Rabindranath Tagore

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

#755 · Mitch Ratcliffe

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

#754 · Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

#753 · Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

#752 · Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

#751 · Robert Frost

These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

#750 · Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

#749 · Robert Frost

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

#748 · Tom Bodett

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

#747 · Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

#746 · Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

#745 · Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

#744 · Henry Adams

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

#743 · Wayne Gretzky

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

#742 · Shirley Chisholm

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

#741 · Shirley Chisholm

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

#740 · David Carson

Wherever there will be nothing, read that I love you.

#739 · Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

#738 · Denis Diderot

We seek the love of others to have another reason to love ourselves.

#737 · Denis Diderot

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

#736 · Molière

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

#735 · John Berger

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

#734 · John Berger

A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at.

#733 · John Berger

You can fix it now on the drafting board with an eraser or you can fix it later on the construction site with a sledge hammer.

#732 · Frank Lloyd Wright

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

#731 · El Lissitzky

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

#730 · El Lissitzky

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

#729 · Isaac Asimov

This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in.

#728 · John Maeda

The Fox knows many things – the hedgehog one big one.

#727 · Archilochus

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

#726 · Archilochus

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

#725 · Archilochus

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

#724 · Shirley Jackson

I have only one thing to do:
be the wave that I am and then
sink back into the ocean.

#723 · Fiona Apple

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

#722 · Elizabeth Berg

It's only words... unless they're true.

#721 · David Mamet

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.

#720 · David Mamet

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

#719 · Gail Sheehy

If everyone likes your design, it's banal. Mediocrity shirks offense. Art dares it.

#718 · Jeffrey Zeldman

Pessimism loves company. Optimism makes companies.

#717 · John Maeda

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them.

#716 · Doris Kearns Goodwin

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

#715 · Doris Kearns Goodwin

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

#714 · Doris Kearns Goodwin

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

#713 · John F. Kennedy

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

#712 · Friedrich Nietzsche

A prototype is a question, embodied.

#711 · Diego Rodriguez, IDEO

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

#710 · Adrienne Rich

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

#709 · Adrienne Rich

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

#708 · Adrienne Rich

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

#707 · Mikhail Lermontov

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

#706 · Mikhail Lermontov

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

#705 · Albert Einstein

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.

#704 · Sister Corita Kent

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

#703 · Elmore Leonard

Those without substance suffer no wounds.

#702 · Nicholas Carr

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

#701 · Debbie Ford

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

#670 · Napoleon Hill

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

#700 · Will Self

Fundamentally you cannot be somebody else. You can only be less of who you are.

#699 · Stefan Molyneux

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

#698 · Stefan Molyneux

The law is an opinion with a gun.

#697 · Stefan Molyneux

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

#696 · Stefan Molyneux

Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

#695 · Jon Postel

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

#694 · Oscar Wilde

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

#693 · Isaac Asimov

The screen provides a refuge, a mediated world that is more predictable, more tractable, and above all safer than the recalcitrant world of things.
We flock to the virtual because the real demands too much of us.

#692 · Nicholas Carr

SAID A BLADE OF GRASS

Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf, “You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams.”

Said the leaf indignant, “Low-born and low-dwelling! Songless, peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tell the sound of singing.”

Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth and slept. And when spring came she waked again — and she was a blade of grass.

And when it was autumn and her winter sleep was upon her, and above her through all the air the leaves were falling, she muttered to herself, “O these autumn leaves! They make such noise! They scatter all my winter dreams."

#649 · Kahlil Gibran

Art is a disorder, to diss order.

#691 · John Maeda

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

#690 · Kurt D. Cobain

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

#689 · Wayne Dyer

To hold a pen is to be at war.

#688 · Voltaire

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

#687 · Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.

#686 · Voltaire

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

#685 · Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

#684 · Voltaire

Injustice in the end produces independence.

#683 · Voltaire

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

#682 · Voltaire

The best is the enemy of the good.

#681 · Voltaire

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

#680 · Voltaire

Common sense is not so common.

#679 · Voltaire

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

#678 · Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

#677 · Voltaire

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

#676 · Sarah Orne Jewett

Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?

#675 · Upton Sinclair

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

#674 · Upton Sinclair

It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.

#673 · Upton Sinclair

To repress what makes us unique is to artificially constrain all the potential we have to offer.

#672 · Cassidy Blackwell

In the midst of winter, I found in me an invincible summer.

#671 · Albert Camus

We are born makers. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.

#669 · Brené Brown

Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice.

#668 · Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.

#667 · Brené Brown

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

#666 · Marilyn Monroe

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

#665 · anonymous

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try to sleep with a mosquito in a room.

#664 · Dalaï Lama

Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.

#640 · René Char

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

#639 · René Char

I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident — before the mouthful of gravel and blood, I swore we were flying.

#663 · Sierra DeMulder

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

#662 · Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

#661 · Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

#660 · Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

#659 · Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

#658 · Yasunari Kawabata

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

#657 · Yasunari Kawabata

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

#656 · Yasunari Kawabata

Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

#655 · Yasunari Kawabata

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

#654 · Jim Rohn

Who, being loved, is poor ?

#653 · Oscar Wilde

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

#652 · Jim Carrey

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

#651 · Theodore Levitt

There’s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness—that’s why it’s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just stacking bowls, and that’s not what bowls are for.

#650 · Frank Chimero

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

#648 · Massimo Vignelli

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

#647 · John Cleese

If you do it right, it will last forever.

#646 · Massimo Vignelli

Loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.

#645 · Francesco Petrarca

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

#644 · Francesco Petrarca

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

#643 · Francesco Petrarca

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

#642 · Francesco Petrarca

As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.

#641 · Donald Rumsfeld

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

#638 · Reid Hoffman

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

#637 · Shūsaku Endō

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

#636 · Erica Jong

The world is too noisy and distracted to probably ultimately survive. Everyone needs to shut the fuck up. The answers are in the silence. Monks set themselves on fire to protest and to make this point. Just consider it.

#635 · Garry Shandling

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

#634 · Allen Ginsberg

The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.

#633 · Allen Ginsberg

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

#632 · Allen Ginsberg

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

#631 · Allen Ginsberg

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

#630 · Lois Lowry

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.

#629 · Lois Lowry

Code is what nuts and bolts were a hundred years ago.

#628 · Erik Spiekermann

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

#627 · Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

#626 · Confucius

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

#625 · Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

#624 · Confucius

If your plan is for one year, plant rice; If your plan is for ten years, plant trees; If your plan is for a hundred years, educate children.

#623 · Confucius

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

#622 · Greek proverb

Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

#621 · Joel Spolsky

I never lose. I either win, or learn.

#620 · Nelson Mandela

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

#619 · Nelson Mandela

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

#618 · Nelson Mandela

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

#617 · Nelson Mandela

Men have become the tools of their tools.

#616 · Henry David Thoreau

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

#615 · Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

#614 · Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

#613 · Henry David Thoreau

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

#612 · Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

#611 · Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

#610 · Henry David Thoreau

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

#609 · Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

#608 · Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

#607 · Henry David Thoreau

There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

#606 · Toni Morrison

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

#605 · Toni Morrison

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

#604 · Toni Morrison

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

#603 · Toni Morrison

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

#602 · Toni Morrison

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

#601 · Toni Morrison

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

#600 · Natalie Angier

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

#599 · Natalie Angier

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

#598 · Natalie Angier

I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.

#597 · Agostinho da Silva

Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.

#596 · Bertolt Brecht

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

#595 · Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken

#594 · Samuel Johnson

Don't count the things you do. Do the things that count.

#593 · Zig Ziglar

If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

#592 · Zig Ziglar

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

#591 · Zig Ziglar

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

#590 · Zig Ziglar

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

#589 · Zig Ziglar

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

#588 · Zig Ziglar

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.

#587 · Zig Ziglar

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

#552 · Walter Scott

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

#551 · Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

#550 · Walter Scott

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

#549 · Walter Scott

Life is not fair, get used to it.

#586 · Bill Gates

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

#585 · Henry Van Dyke

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

#584 · Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

#583 · Albert Camus

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

#582 · Albert Camus

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

#581 · Steve Jobs

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

#580 · Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

#579 · Pablo Picasso

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

#578 · Sun-tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

#577 · Sun-tzu

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

#576 · Sun-tzu

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

#575 · Vincent Van Gogh

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

#574 · Bertrand Russell

I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

#573 · Shaquille O'Neal

Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.

#572 · Jeanne C. Stein

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

#571 · Frank Miller

Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die.

#570 · anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

#569 · Aristotle

When written in Chinese, the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

#568 · John F. Kennedy

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

#567 · Harriet Beecher Stowe

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

#566 · Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry.

#565 · Rupi Kaur

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