Charles Babbage (December 26, 1791 – October 18 1871) was an English philosopher, inventor, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He is known for inventing the first mechanical computer and is considered the “father of the computer.”

Below we list some words of wisdom from Charles Babbage.

“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”

“Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God’s laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.”

“There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.”

“Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.”

“Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.”

“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.”

“The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.”

“Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.”

“In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.”

“The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.”

“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.”

“Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.”

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George Berkeley (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753) was known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) and was an Anglo-Irish philosopher. His primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called “immaterialism”, which says material substances are ideas perceived by the mind and cannot exist without being perceived.

Berkeley published his first major work in 1709 called An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, which says objects of sight are not material objects, but light and color.

Berkeley argued against Isaac Newton’s doctrine of absolute space, time and motion in De Motu (On Motion), which led to the views of Ernst Mach and Albert Einstein. His book The Analyst, a critique of the foundations of calculus, which was influential in the development of mathematics.

Below we list words of wisdom from George Berkeley.

“The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.”

“Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?”

“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”

“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”

“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”

“What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.”

“It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.”

“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth – in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world – have not any subsistence without a mind.”

“To be is to be perceived”

“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”

“A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.”

“The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.”

“Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn the world into a dungeon, and keep mankind for ever in chains and darkness.”

“This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.”

“Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.”

“The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.”

“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretense to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”

“God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.”

“A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.”

“He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.”

“Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.”

“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”

“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceive the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”

“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so little affected by them, that they seem as it were blinded with excess of light.”

“That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connection between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.”

“So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.”

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Herbert Spencer (April 27, 1820 – December 8, 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, and anthropologist. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” yet his concept of evolution included ethical human progression. In the late 1800s he was one of the most influential European intellectuals and is one of the only philosophers to sell over a million copies of his works during his own lifetime.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Herbert Spencer.

“The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.”

“The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.”

“We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.”

“That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.”

‘The white light of truth, in traversing the many-sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.”

“Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.”

“Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.”

“Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”

“Science is organized knowledge.”

“Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.”

“Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.”

“The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.”

“No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.”

“Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.”

“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.”

“What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man — to protect person and property — to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak — in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.”

“All socialism involves slavery.”

“Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.”

“Reading is seeing by proxy.”

“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.”

“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”

“Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.”

“Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.”

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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) lived during the Renaissance and was a Florentine diplomat, philosopher, historian, and author. He served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic for many years. He is most known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe) and he also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Niccolo Machiavelli.

“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles.”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

“A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.”

“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.”

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.”

“Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.”

“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”

“One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”

“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”

“Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.”

“Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.”

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”

“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”

“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

“There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.”

“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”

“Appear as you may wish to be.”

“There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.”

“A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.”

“The end justifies the means.”

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John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 – May 7, 1873) was an English economist, philosopher, politician and civil servant. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy called him “the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century.” He greatly influenced classical liberalism and championed the freedom of the individual.

Below we list some words of wisdom from John Stuart Mill.

“In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.”

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”

“Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premises, from which all others are inferred.”

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”

“There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.”

“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.”

“Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting…in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.”

“Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.”

“Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.”

“So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, and live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or government.”

“Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”

“All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.”

“The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection…The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.”

“Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.”

“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”

“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”

“All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.”

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.”

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David Hume (May 7th, 1711 – August 25th 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, economist, historian, essayist, and librarian. He is best known for his system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

Below we list some words of wisdom from David Hume.

“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.”

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

“The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.”

“It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.”

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.”

“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”

“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”

“A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion”

“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

“I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.”

“Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.”

“It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

“Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.”

“Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.”

“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.”

“Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.”

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

“The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”

“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”

“The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.”

“The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.”

“Men often act knowingly against their interest.”

“I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.”

“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”

“The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.”

“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’.”

“Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.”

“When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.”

“Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men’s dreams.”

“He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.”

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Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a French painter and originator of impressionist painting. The term “Impressionism” stems from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant. His early works of seascapes, landscapes, and portraits didn’t attract much attention, but he eventually became successful. By the late 20th century, he was one of the world’s most famous painters. He was so devoted to his method of painting the same scene multiple times to capture changes in light and the seasons that he spent the final 20 years of his life focused on paintings of water lilies in his garden.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Claude Monet.

“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”

“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”

“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.”

“I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that’s the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.”

“Everything changes, even stone.”

“Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.”

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”

“I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.”

“My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.”

“My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.”

“Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.”

“My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.”

“It’s the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one’s done.”

“It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.”

“I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.”

“Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.”

“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It’s a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can’t do any thing else. I have only one interest.”

“Think of me getting up before 6, I’m at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It’s murderous.”

“What is it that’s taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?”

“I have once more taken up things that can’t be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I’m always tackling that sort of thing!”

“I insist upon ‘doing it alone’… I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”

“As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.”


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Thomas Hobbes (April 5th, 1588 – December 20th, 1679) was an English philosopher. He is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan about social contract theory. Hobbes also contributed to ethics, history, geometry, and theology. He’s frequently considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

Below we list words of wisdom from Thomas Hobbes.

“The world is governed by opinion.”

“Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.”

“It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.”

“Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.”

“For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.”

“Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.”

“The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.”

“Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.”

“Nature itself cannot err.”

“Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

“Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.”

“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”

“The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.”

“Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.”

“If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.”

“Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.”

“The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.”

“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

“For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.”

“Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.”

“Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.”

“Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.”

“Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.”

“A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.”

“By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.”

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

“Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.”

“Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.”

“Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.”

“As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.”

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Francis Ford Coppola (April 7, 1939–) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest directors of all time, having received five Academy Awards and six Golden Globes. Patton, The Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, and The Rainmaker are some of his most celebrated films.

Below we list some words of wisdom from Francis Ford Coppola.

“My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.”

“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”

“An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before?”

“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”

“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.”

“You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.”

“I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.”

“One thing that I’m sure of is the real pleasure of life – it’s not being known, it’s not having your own jet plane, it’s not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something.”

“I think it’s better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!”

“You ought to love what you’re doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.”

“I was never sloppy with other people’s money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.”

“But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?”

“I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.”

“I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better – time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.”

“I believe that filmmaking – as, probably, is everything – is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you’ve got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.”

“Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature.”

“Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realize how you could do better, and those are valued.”

“I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, or John Grisham’s The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn’t have the right to Francis Coppola’s anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.”

“If you’re a person who says yes most of the time, you’ll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.”

“If you’re not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone’s going to just stick to the rules – there’s not going to be any additional ideas.”

“Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It’s this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.”

“I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn’t do well in school.”

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Elizabeth Taylor (February 27th, 1932 – March 23rd, 2011) was a British-American actress. She was one of the most popular stars of Hollywood in the 1950s, became the world’s highest paid movie star in the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure.

Taylor was one of the first celebrities to take part in HIV/AIDS activism, and from the early 1990s until her death, she dedicated her time to philanthropy, receiving several awards. She was also known for being married eight times, surviving several serious illnesses, and owning one of the most expensive private jewelry collections in the world.

Below we list words of wisdom from Elizabeth Taylor:

“I don’t have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit”

“It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”

“You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.”

“I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being – to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.”

“All of my life I’ve spent a lot of time with gay men – Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson – who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn’t be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it’s a human agenda”

“Without homosexuals there’d be no Hollywood.”

“I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.”

“I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.”

“My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”

“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”

“Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.”

“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”

“I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.”

“I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.”

“A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.”

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