“Set thy heart upon thy work but never on its reward.”

-Vyasa

“My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me. How comfortable one is around murderers.”

-Emil Cioran

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

-Baruch Spinoza

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

-Voltaire

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

-Dalai Lama

“It’s easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”

-John Locke

“Your genetics loads the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.”

-Mehmet Oz

“The roots of education are bitter but the fruits are sweet.”

-Aristotle

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

-Plutarch

“In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

-Desiderius Erasmus

“Reserve your right to think. For even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”

-Hypatia

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

-Sigmund Freud

“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”

-Seneca

“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers”

–William James

“I therefore had to remove knowledge to make room for belief.”

-Immanuel Kant

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

-Aristotle

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

-Rene Descartes

“The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs… has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.”

-John Locke

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

-Plato

“Be Kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

-Plato

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”

-St Augustine

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”

-Thomas Hobbes

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”

-Buddha

“What worries you, masters you.”

-John Locke