Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
Category: The Wisdom of writers
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Never laugh at live dragons.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Mark Twain