“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the classroom.”
Robert Frost
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
Robert Frost
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost · The Road Not Taken, 1916
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Robert Frost · The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
Voltaire
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
Voltaire · The Age of Louis XIV, 1752
“We must cultivate our garden.”
Voltaire · Candide, 1759
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
Leo Tolstoy · The First Step, 1892
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy · A Confession, 1882
“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace, 1869
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina, 1878
“I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means — except by getting off his back.”
Leo Tolstoy · What Then Must We Do?, 1886
“The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy · Three Methods of Reform, 1900
