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sharp insights from minds that shaped the world — and a few that history forgot to hype

15 January

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

14 January

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran

13 January

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey

12 January

Man is condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

11 January

One is not born but rather becomes a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

10 January

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca

9 January

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 January

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hatred cannot drive out hatred only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

7 January

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most which never happened.

Mark Twain

6 January

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

5 January

I will not be triumphed over.

Cleopatra

4 January

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

3 January

It’s better to hang out with people better than you.

Warren Buffett

2 January

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

1 January

I came I saw I conquered.

Julius Caesar

31 Dec 2025

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

30 Dec 2025

Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream. But the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life. Man cannot allow himself to leave it behind.

Kentaro Miura

29 Dec 2025

Genius is one percent inspiration ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

28 Dec 2025

Know yourself and know your enemy and you will never be defeated.

Sun Tzu

27 Dec 2025

There is a time for many words and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer