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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

Best, Knowledge, Done

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe

Truth, Experience, Philosophy

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

Great, Men, Stars

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer

Yourself, Before, Speak

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Tony Robbins

Value, Changes, Consistent

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams, Hope, Made

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Keeping, Relation

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins

Life, Power, Experience

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

Culture, Sheep, Tame

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton

Life, Friendship, False

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

Blessed, Human, Soul

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

Good, Forget, May

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Tony Robbins

Cannot, Impossible, Possible

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Henry David Thoreau

Government, Place, Prison

A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost

Him, Thought, Find

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Courage, Job, Afraid

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins

Time, Understand, Once

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield

Time, Today, Tomorrow

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
Elbert Hubbard

Teacher, Lessons, Learner

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, Down, Give

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost

Writer, Reader, Ear

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Johnny Depp

Problem, Labeled

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

Religion, Truth, Try

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard

Greatest, Remember, Trouble

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Education, Sympathy, Kindness

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

Stay, Style, Original

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill

Best, Others, Succeed

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

Change, Learning, End

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