Misattributed Quotes

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
― William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke - Enlarged Print Edition

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
― John Philpot Curran

“You can't buy happiness”
― Kurt Cobain

“Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis

“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”
― Brian Tracy

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.”
― L. M. Montgomery

“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”
― Gautama Buddha

“All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."

"Lake and Palmer?"

"Ralph and Waldo.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh”
― Tarrin P. Lupo

“The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. (Note: This quote is fake and does not appear in Simulacra and Simulation. I tried to delete it, but the system doesn't allow that because this quote has "too many fans" lol.)”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took,
but how many moments took your breath away.”
― Shing Xiong

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
― E. M. Forster

“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.”
― Wade Davis, Light at the Edge of the World

“It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.”
― Dallin H. Oaks

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“As you ramble on through life, Brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― John Rawls

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”
― Baden Powell

“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“If I could live again - I will travel light,
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet
at the beginning of spring till
the end of autumn,
I'll ride more carts,
I'll watch more sunrises...”
― Jorge Luis Borges