It has been over a year since I published my collection of 60 very best quotes, and it still remains one of the most popular pages on this website. I thought it was time for a sequel, including great quotes that were left out of the first collection or have been recently discovered. Enjoy!
Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes
1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
2. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand
16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.
18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Humor Quotes
21. If it weren’t for my lawyer, I’d still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.
22. Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
23. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
24. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
25. You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
26. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
27. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
28. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
29. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)
30. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
31. The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
32. My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me.
33. I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.
34. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
35. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
36. If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.
37. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
38. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
39. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
40. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Otherwise Interesting Quotes
41. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
42. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
43. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
44. A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
45. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
46. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
47. The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
48. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
49. In God we trust; all others bring data.
50. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
51. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
52. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
53. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.
54. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
55. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
56. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
57. Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.
58. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
59. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
60. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
If you enjoyed this collection, check the original selection of 60 very best quotes or browse the full collection (which has just been updated with over 500 quotes).
What are you favorite ones out of the collection above? Do you have a favorite quote of yours that isn’t in this list? I’d love to hear in the comments!
öne of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries- A.A. Milne (1882-1956)
Gravity it’s not just a good idea its the law- NASA briefing slide ca. 2005
Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics- Anonymous
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Democracy is a process by which people have the free will to choose the person who will get the blame- Anonymous
and one that was told to me a long time ago by a street urchin reeking of booze: A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
“A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.” i really love that quote, even if it isn’t from a very well known person, im glad u shared it =D
Ability is what you’re capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Hey i really like all these quotes. They make me think and i love how there are people that actually interested in finding out wat the minds of the most important people in our history think of.I really hope to see that bring more and hope to be reading them soon.
i just really love this quote. thanks. bor….
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
–Albert Einstein
love your list, very entertaining.
here are some more quotes from another Picasso/Einstein:
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob Dylan
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob Dylan
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself… All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans ~ Ben Harper
Our ability to live in peace w/ each other depends first and foremost on our ability to accept all that is different b/ween us ~ Idan Raichel
There are times when life presents many options, but to keep them all in existence is to do nothing ~ Unknown
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you, but let us talk that may not be lonely ~ Kahlil Gibran
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams b/c they grow old, they grow old b/c they stop pursuing dreams ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. ~ Paulo Coelho
Luciano i love your collection of quotes my favourite one from your list is “I’m looking forward to looking back on all of this.”
here’s one i’d like to share: “Everything will be ok in the end, if its not ok then its not the end.” -Unknown Author (at least to me)
its not as complex like the quotes i’ve read here but its still inspiring to me =]
Great quotes! I especially like #41. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
—Albert Einstein
Thank You for a great website!
“Why so they call it common sense, when it’s so rare”
you know your in love when you cant sleep because your reality is better than your dreams
) Dr. Suess
my best quote is “there is no remedy for love but to love more”.
“Common sense is not so common.”
-Voltaire
“Before you judge an enemy, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you’re a mile away and you have his shoes.”
I found your blog on Google. I’ve bookmarked it and will watch out for your next blog post.
Truly Amazing quotes!
Here is my personal favorite, it relates to running at it’s extremely motivational and can be looked at with different perspectives in life.
”The only good race pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die”- Steve Prefontaine.
”If someone is going to beat me, they are going to have to bleed to do it”- Steve Preofntaine
“Do not follow where the path leads, lead where the path follows” – Nicole Merrillees
I think this is a really good quote.
i would like to add one more to the list “Every moment is an experience.”
Hey… ppl and Luciano amzing collection… i jst read all the posts n i jst wanted to share the 1 i like the most im not sure bout who said it tho it goes somthign like-”Never argue with a foolish person,if yu do he will drag yu down to his level and then beat you experience”
and 1 more…-”never fight with a pig , if yu do both of yu will get dirty but the pig will enjoy it”
hope yu ppl liked them
Kaling Reddy
Man, every time I run across an Oscar Wilde quote, someone has picked a different one as their favorite ….. man was a machine for ace quotes. Groucho is also high on my list.
Nice list, thx.
These quotes are good. The quotes I need are the ones that symbolize growing up, and becoming a woman. I need a perfect quote by a woman to a woman. One that can make one cry, and love more. I need a quote for a speech to the best friend. not a best friend. THE best friend. and I need to make it perfect.
“Ignorance do not Justify Stupidity.”
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“If you love life, then dont waster time, for time is what life is made up of” -Bruce Lee
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground” -Buddha
“Repetition is the father of learning” -Lil Wayne
“Even the sunshine burns is you get enough of it” – A.A.
“It is better to understand than to be understood” – A.A.
“Why become friends with those whom The Creator Lord Himself has misled” -Guru Gobind Singh Ji
“Dont gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold” -Bob Marley
Just a couple to add to everyone’s collection
Thanks for the post
It seems that the formatting of the FEAR acronym got lost with the font formatting, so here it goes (now in the horizontal):
F.alse
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Thank you and everybody for the all the recent contributions!
those were awesome!
those made me think.
me too started making some……..
Nice collection.
great work. continue…
Increadible collection of quotes =)
id like to add this quote
“fear is the absence of knowledge”
Very nice collection of quotes or even greath. Well done. Continu… Here is one: “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.” Helen Keller
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C. Clarke
“There is no problem so big that it cannot be resolved by the proper application of high explosives” Unknown
great collection
“Never stop smiling you never know who is going to fall in love with it” and “If i had 7 hours to cut a tree i would spend the first 5 sharpening my axe” good quotes
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The mind is everything. What you think you become”
by buddha
“The world will be your best counselor, if you follow its advice.
Stupidity is a pain irremediable; a disease incurable.
Intelligence is a natural gift, and increases with teaching and experience. ”
hazrat Ali(Ra)
I found you on StumbleUpon. Read every single quote and every comment. I copied and pasted a bunch of them into my own quote collection. And I will share a few of my own that I haven’t seen on this thread already:
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000? -Tim Ferriss
The mere distribution of where our time is spent reveals to us not only our priorities in life but even the weighted relative importance of each priority to another. Time is a scarce resource and the way we spend it defines us and our values. -James Hurst
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” Emily Dickenson
If someone told me you could be normal or you could continue to have your ADD, I would take ADD,” says Neeleman, who foregoes medication to manage the condition. “I’m afraid of taking drugs once, blowing a circuit, and then being like the rest of you.”
The quest to have more can be seen in our homes as well as our waistlines. In 1950, the average home was 1,100 square feet. In 1970, it had increased to 1,400 square feet. By the year 2000, the average home was more than 2,000 square feet, despite the fact that family sizes have gotten smaller.
Saying that you don’t have time to track your money is like saying you don’t have time to watch the traffic signals as you drive. In fact, you don’t have time not to. You spend thousands of hours each year earning—why wouldn’t you take a few hours a month to track where it goes?
Many more people could ride out the storm tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year’s supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse; they have at least a year’s supply of debt and are food-free.
President Thomas S. Monson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
-Benjamin D’Israeli
Jim Lovell: We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon, you can put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you have ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself, all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are. But then how fortunate we are to have this body, and to be able to enjoy living here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.
At least one difference between a tolerable marriage and a great one may be that willingness in the latter to allow some things to pass without comment, without response.
In marriage the grass grows greener on the side of the fence you water most.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
The rich man has the better food the poor man has the better appetite.
“Live simply, so that others may simply live.”
-Gandhi
“At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt
Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a
hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had
earned from his wildly popular novel, Catch-22, over its whole history. Heller responds, ‘Yes, but I have something he will never have: Enough.’
Doing the small and simple things is a lot like shaving…no matter how good a job you do today, you have to do just as good job tomorrow.
Never ever be afraid to ask anybody their name. Nobody is so amazing that you should be intimidated by them and no one is so unamazing that you are too good to talk to them.
Adversities are temporary, what is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.
I have many more, because I am an avid quote collector. But I will stop for now.
Thanks for the post!
Thanks everyone for enriching this collection! Although I am not personally responding to each individual comment here, I read all of them, and always include in my collection the quotes I like best.
Keep them coming!
Nice collection….. the best is by Adlai E., “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Its highly relevant in the current times.
I think Freud came up with another interesting quote: “If youth knew, if age could”.
That is one crappy list. Most of those quotes are pointless or just plain stupid. Here are some examples:
“9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.”
“12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
“13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.”
Do you actually find these genius or interesting? You cant consider anything that sound profound a great quote.
The best I found were these:
41. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
42. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
45. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
60. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
Notice the # position of these and compare with some of the ones above them.
You are disgracing great quotes mixing them with crap.
These are great. Thanks for putting them together like you have.
Debbie
One of my favorites is one I saw over a greenhouse man’s desk.
If it’s to be, it’s up to me.
Wonderful selection!
“You can never get enough of what you don’t really need” by Eric Hoffer
and “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them” by Alfred Adler were the most relevant to me today, though I could never pick a favorite.
Because I’m “supposed” to be working right now and am looking up quotes instead, I couldn’t help but think of an Oscar Wilde quote and have a laugh at myself:
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” -Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Hi
Loved your quotes. I myself made up one that I think you should read & tell me what you think;
“It becomes official you’re getting old when you start to find greys in places other than in your head”.
great quotes! i am adding a few more here:
1. if we learn from loosing, we become winners in the end…but only if we learn!
the next one was thought of by my father, he owns it
2. Never leave home without humour; coz it will save you from tumor!!!!
great work Luciano.
cheers!
Bilal
Since there was the earlier outcry for quotes about/by women, I immediately thought of my senior quote:
“Well behaved women seldom make history” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
And another, although I don’t know who it is by, that is one of my favorites:
“If you were going to die tomorrow, who would you call, what would you say, and why are you waiting?”
“Anger clouds judgement” <- A simple one to live by
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?”
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last
I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow
If Harry Potter’s so magical, why cant he cure his own eyesight and get laid. A teenage lad shouldnt need a broomstick to cling onto.
I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Your list is over a year old but the quotes are immortal. Long live the great thinkers and observers. Humans have such potential to think.
I really like some of these quotes. A while ago I tried to make a quote of my own. I am not good at English and i was only 16 when i wrote it sooo hope you like it.
Love isn’t as horrible as everyone depicts it as. We are all running in
one chain. Each person is chasing another. All you have to do is turn
around to see the one who only sees you. – Trevor Pfau Nov. 27, 2009
My favorite quote “Always and never are two words I always remember never to say.”
hi,
a really nice collection of quotes. i really liked this one,
“The little I know I owe to my ignorance.”… very true.
these r all v. nice quot.i like (You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.)v much
Problems are the ultimate result you get when you try to excel in everything you get your hands on.
Given a chance,we’d all choose to have done things differently.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell