"Na počiatku Boh rozdelil Človeka na ľudí, aby si mohli byť navzájom nápomocní, práve tak, ako rozdelil ruku na prsty, aby lepšie plnila svoj účel."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Všechna intolerance lidstva je založena na falešném vědomí společné identity."

"Možná, že naše hektická civilizace schází proto, že lidé nemají čas na přemýslení." -Milan Šimečka

"Někteři čtou, aby přemýšleli; těch je málo. Někteří čtou, aby psali; těch je více. Někteří čtou, aby mluvili; těch je nejvíce."
-Luigi Pirandelo

"Kdosi tvrdil s velkou dávkou pravdy, že knihtisk sice vzdělanost rozšířil, ale co do obsahu zmenšil. Mnoho čtení škodí přemýšlení."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Některé knihy se zdají být napsány ne proto, aby se čtenář z nich učil, nýbrž aby se pochopilo, že autor něco věděl."
-Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Kořenem všeho zla je nedostatek poznání."
-Buddha

"Timeo lectorem unins libri (Bojím sa čitateľa jednej knihy)"
-Cirkevný otec

"K dobré knize je třeba dobrých čtenářu."
-Victor Hugo

"Protože život je krátky a šťastných chvil v ňem tak málo, nemáme propást ani jedinou minutu čtením knih bezcenných."

"Četba je rozhovor s lidmi mnohem moudřejšímy a zajímavějšími než ti, s nimiž se mužeš seznamovat kolem sebe."
-John Ruskin

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
-Shakespeare

"All truth goes through 3 steps: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

"We will either find a way, or make one."
-Hannibal

"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live."
-Boris Pasternak

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
-Buddha

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
-Bertrand Russell

"The only time you can't afford to fail is the last time you try."
-Charles Kettering

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
-Jean Giraudoux

"I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes."
-Henry Kaiser

"Slova knihy nás  vždy vzruší, ale duležité je, aby nás změnila."
-Konfucius

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
-Louis Pasteur

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
-Voltaire

"Najlepšie veci v živote sú zadarmo (The best things in life are for free)."
-barón Rotschild

"You cannot shake hands with a closed fist."
-Golda Meir

"Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals."
-Voltaire

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
-Horace

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
-Epicurus

"A v mojom bláznostve som našiel slobodu a bezpečie; slobodu samoty a bezpečie pred bytím pochopený. Lebo tí, čo nás chápu, v nás niečo zotročujú."
-Chalíl Džibrán

"Lotos je kvet vyrastajúci z močiara. Čím je bahno na jeho "dne hlbšie tým väčší a krajší kvet vyrastie."
-Buddha

"Eighty-five percent of life is just showing up."
-Woody Allen

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
-Thomas Edison

"Jediná vec, ktorej sa treba skutočne báť je strach."
-Alfred Hitchcok

"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."
-Napoleon

"No man is free who cannot control himself."
-Pythagoras

"The reward of suffering is experience."
-Aeschylus

"In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."
-Albert Einstein

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-Winston Churchill

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
-Henri Louis Bergson

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
-Demosthenes

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
-Rene Descartes

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
-Henry Ford

"Nikdo by nemohl cenu knih vyjádřit v jiné hodnotě. Neboť to, co nám poskytují, nekonečně přesahuje rozkoš, již nám dáva moc, víno nebo ženy."
-Richard de Bury, biskup z Durhamu

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own."
-Harry S. Truman

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
-Aristotle

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know  the place for the first time."
-T.S. Eliot

"He who considers too much will perform little."
-Johann von Schiller

"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
-Heraclitus

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The great man is he that does not lose his child's-heart."
-Mencius

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
-Jonathan Swift

"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."
-Miguel de Cervantes

"No enemy is worse than bad advice."
-Sophocles

"History is the version of past events that people have "decided to agree upon."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."
-Victor Hugo

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgot their use."
-Galileo Galilei

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
-Isaac Asamov.

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Edison

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of  any kind as the quality of perseverance. It  overcomes almost everything, even nature."
-John Rockefeller

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
-Aesop

"There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and  those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group - there  is lest competition there."
 -Indira Gandhi

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
-Albert Einstein

"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it."
-Jerome Klappka

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance."
-Confucius

"Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one."
-Marcus Aurelius

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
-Confucius

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
-Euripides

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
-Marcus Aurelius

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
-Galileo Galilei

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
-Seneca

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates

"Math is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated."
-R. Drabek

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."
-Seneca

"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."
-Walt Disney
 
 
 
 
 

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