In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the thing you have long taken for granted Bertrand Russell

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth Jean-Paul Sartre

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half-knowledge is more victorious than whole knowledge: it understands things as being more simple than they are and this renders its opinions more easily intelligible and more convincing Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to make delicious food, you must eat delicious food. One must develop a palate capable of discerning good and bad. Without good taste, you can’t make good food Jiro Ono

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast E. M. Cioran

“Keeping it real” is a waste of the medium. More fun to become the most interesting or helpful version of you Austin Kleon

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself George Bernard Shaw

Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever Brian Wilson

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any Hugh Laurie

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad Miles Kington

A good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of Umberto Eco

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was Muhammad Ali

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it Alfred Hitchcock

You know how you survive? You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have. And then they have nowhere else to go Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates in Pirates of Silicon Valley

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see Arthur Schopenhauer

You spend a lifetime playing music to learn what not to play Dizzy Gillespie

That human being is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another’s Aristotle