Here are my top favorite cool quotes from Mark Twain, Maya Angelou and others which I have selected specially for your reading pleasure:
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
“A wise man does not need advice and a fool won’t take it.” – Unknown
“It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Copying from a single source is called plagiarism, copying from multiple source is called research.” – Unknown
“A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.” – Anonymous
“Stand tall and none can look down to you.” – Unknown
“Everybody makes mistakes, that’s why they put erasers on the end of pencils.” – Unknown
“You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.” – Angelou, Maya
“A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.” – Chinese Proverb
“To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.” – Edward Gibbon
“Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.” – Publilius Syrus
“Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.” – Spanish Proverb
“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.” – H. H. Munro (Saki)
“Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough” – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.” – Anatole France
“A rich man’s joke is always funny.” – Thomas Edward Brown
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.” – Colton
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” – Lenin
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Mark Twain