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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

“Never Explain Anything”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Night Ocean et autres nouvelles

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“The pro is the amateur who simply showed up every day.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“Sit on as many chairs as you can before you find the one chair on which you feel you belong.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“It is better to be busy in the chase of finding yourself instead of being busy in the rat race and never know yourself.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“Only when you go against the flow will you find your own flow.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“Ego is a bubble. Instead of bursting it and seeing what all lies outside, we invest most of our energy protecting it.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“People will help you only when you have helped them understand how they can.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“We crave novelty, yet settle for a one-
career life.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“Nothing beats the feeling of having done more in twenty-four hours than what the day expected you to!”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“It is not the privilege that harms us. It is our lack of awareness of our own privilege that harms us.”
― Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

“It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” —Henry David Thoreau”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” —Henry Ford”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months