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

16 October

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

15 October

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

14 October

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Abraham Lincoln

13 October

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

12 October

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

Warren Buffett

11 October

There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

10 October

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

9 October

The path to paradise begins in hell.

Dante Alighieri

8 October

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

Emily Dickinson

7 October

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

6 October

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas.

Paul Graham

5 October

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

Hafez

4 October

Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

3 October

When you innovate you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.

Larry Ellison

2 October

Business opportunities are like buses there’s always another one coming.

Richard Branson

1 October

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

30 September

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

John Stuart Mill

29 September

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Plato

28 September

What worries you masters you.

John Locke

27 September

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle