352. William James
“You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.”
Tag: Philosopher
341. 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
326. Thomas Paine
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
308. Socrates
“Improve yourself by other men’s writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.”
284. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.“
275. Plato
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
269. Noam Chomsky
“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own
264. Niccolò Machiavelli
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
209. Karl Marx
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for
185. John Locke
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”