Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 6

• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

  William James

  Education, Philosophical, College

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• We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

  Margaret Mead

  Nature, Society, Changing Environment

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

  Wilson Mizner

  Humility, Humble, Ego

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• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Travel, Past, Journey

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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love, Marriage, Flower

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fire, Steel, Finest

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.525, Best Books on

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• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, War, 4th Of July

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.38, Penguin

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

  Emma Stone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beauty

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• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

  Mark Twain

  Self, People, Trying

  Following the Equator ch. 14, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Competition, Atmosphere, Together

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• What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

  Pablo Neruda

  Sky, Tree, Able

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Hatred, Today

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• The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Artist, People

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• Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

  Ugo Betti

  Giving, Want, Persons

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

  Mark Van Doren

  People, Limits, Ability

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Fools Day

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

  Horace

  Future, Littles, Today

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