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Winston S. Churchill Foto

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
El mejor argumento en contra de la democracia es una conversación de cinco minutos con el votante medio.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. First known appearance is in a 1992 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rec.arts.comics.misc/EMj3ZowKq1U/E0dsEBwdZEgJ.
Misattributed
Fuente: Google books link https://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=average+voter#v=snippet&q=average%20voter&f=false

Wayne W. Dyer Foto

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Variante: You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Confucius Foto

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Margaret Cousins Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Attributed to Emerson in Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2000) by H. Jackson Brown Jr., as well as numerous on-line sources since, the article "The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy But To Matter" at the Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/29/purpose/ indicates that this quote is probably derived from various statements first made by Leo Rosten, including the following words delivered at the National Book Awards held in New York in 1962: "The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."
Misattributed

Marilyn Monroe Foto
Erich Fromm Foto

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

Erich Fromm libro El arte de amar

Variante: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Fuente: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Hell is—other people!”

Jean Paul Sartre A puerta cerrada

Variante: Hell is others.
Fuente: No Exit

Will Rogers Foto
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Foto

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Variante: Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Contexto: I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

Charles Baudelaire Foto
Robert Fulghum Foto
Albert Einstein Foto
Richard Bach Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Maya Angelou Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto
Confucius Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
No existe el azar, Dios no juega a los dados.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Fuente: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Una carrera profesional es maravillosa, pero no puedes acurrucarte con ella en una noche fría.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variante: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Fuente: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53

Ansel Adams Foto
Plutarch Foto

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
Aprende a escuchar, y te beneficiarás incluso de aquellos que hablan mal.

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Al final nada es sagrado excepto la integridad de tu propia mente.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Fuente: Self-Reliance

Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
Un hombre prudente es una persona que cree que sus propias reglas de comportamiento son leyes naturales.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Ambrose Bierce Foto

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Fuente: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

John F. Kennedy Foto

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Los que hacen imposible una revolución pacífica, harán inevitable una revolución violenta.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9100&st=&st1=
1962

George Bernard Shaw Foto
Desmond Tutu Foto

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

Charles Bukowski Foto

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting”
La diferencia entre una democracia y una dictadura consiste en que en la democracia puedes votar antes de obedecer las órdenes, en la dictadura no tienes que gastar tu tiempo votando.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
El éxito es aprender a ir de fracaso en fracaso sin desesperarse.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Variante: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Fuente: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success

Albert Einstein Foto

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
Una vez que puedes aceptar al universo como materia expandiéndose a una nada que es algo, usar rayas con cuadros es fácil.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Thomas Aquinas Foto
John Dewey Foto

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
Misc. Quotes
Fuente: The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

Muhammad Ali Foto

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Contexto: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
Lo que tú haces habla tan fuerte que no me deja escuchar lo que dices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Variante: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Thich Nhat Hanh Foto

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Fuente: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Paulo Coelho Foto

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”

Paulo Coelho libro Brida

Fuente: Brida (1990).
Contexto: When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Anaïs Nin Foto
Anaïs Nin Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
El castigo del mentiroso es, no que no le crean, sino que él no puede creer a nadie.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Fuente: The Quintessence of Ibsenism

Jane Austen Foto
Agatha Christie Foto

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
Un arqueólogo es el mejor esposo que una mujer podría tener. Cuando más envejece ella, más interesado está él en ella.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Variante: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Arthur Conan Doyle Foto

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
Watson Venga de una vez si es conveniente. Si es inconveniente, vengan de todos modos.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Fuente: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man

Franz Kafka Foto
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Soñar con ser actriz, es más emocionante que ser una

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Leo Tolstoy Foto

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Leo Tolstoy libro Ana Karenina

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variante: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Fuente: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Marcus Aurelius Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
Quiero saber que te moviste y respiraste en el mismo mundo que yo.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Fuente: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jane Austen Foto
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Jane Austen Foto

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Fuente: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

John Steinbeck Foto

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

John Steinbeck libro Al este del Edén

Fuente: East of Eden (1952)
Contexto: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Contexto: In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Milan Kundera Foto

“There is no perfection only life”

Milan Kundera libro La insoportable levedad del ser

Fuente: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Winston S. Churchill Foto
Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Fuente: Time Enough for Love

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Es completamente cierto que la vida, como dicen los filósofos, debe entenderse hacia atrás. Pero olvidan la otra proposición: que debe ser vivida hacia adelante.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Journals IV A 164 (1843)
See Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, by Dermot Moran (2002)
Variants:
We live forward, but we understand backward.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

Martin Luther King, Jr. Foto

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Contexto: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Albert Einstein Foto

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Sería posible describir todo científicamente, pero no tendría ningún sentido; carecería de significado el que usted describiera a la sinfonía de Beethoven como una variación de la presión de la onda auditiva.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Jack Kerouac Foto

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
Mi falla, mi fracaso, no está en las pasiones que tengo, sino en mi falta de control sobre ellas.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
Misattributed

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro This Side of Paradise

Fuente: This Side of Paradise

Henry David Thoreau Foto

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Alexander Pope Foto

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Fuente: An Essay on Criticism (1711)

Lou Holtz Foto

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
La habilidad es lo que permite hacer ciertas cosas. La motivación determina lo que se hace. La actitud cuán bien se hace.

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

Variante: Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Confucius Foto
Albert Einstein Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Si nos encontramos con un hombre de intelecto peculiar, debemos preguntarle qué libros lee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
P.G. Wodehouse Foto
Francis Bacon Foto

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”

Francis Bacon libro The Advancement of Learning

Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Fuente: The Advancement Of Learning
Contexto: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
Quiero envejecer sin arrugas. Quiero tener el coraje de ser leal a la cara que me he creadoo.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Albert Einstein Foto

“My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Contexto: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I read poetry to save time.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Milan Kundera Foto

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

Milan Kundera libro La insoportable levedad del ser

Fuente: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

Charles Baudelaire Foto

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
Variante: Genius is nothing but youth recaptured.
Fuente: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Paulo Coelho Foto

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

Paulo Coelho libro Once minutos

Fuente: Eleven Minutes

Richard Bach Foto

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Fuente: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Edward de Bono Foto
Agatha Christie Foto
Francis Bacon Foto

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Una pregunta prudente es la mitad de la sabiduría.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Colin Powell Foto

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Variante: You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Marilyn Monroe Foto

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
Los chicos piensan que las chicas son como los libros; si la tapa no les llama la atención, no se molestarán en leer lo que hay dentro.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variante: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Percy Bysshe Shelley Foto

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam

Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

John Steinbeck Foto

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
Y el pequeño detalle que grita y resuena a lo largo de toda la historia: la represión no hace más que fortalecer y unir a los reprimidos.

John Steinbeck libro The Grapes of Wrath

Fuente: The Grapes of Wrath

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