Famous phrases of celebrities from other times that will make you think

phrases to reflect

Celebrities, of any era, are people who set trends in any aspect of other people's lives. Everything they say is known by the famous media, but sometimes, whether in written or spoken language, they can say certain phrases from the heart that if you hear them at a specific moment, they can make you think and even reflect on your own life.

Below we have made a compilation of some famous phrases of celebrities that when you read them and enter your mind, they will make you think. They are the type of phrases that make you reflect on life in general, but above all, on your own life. Do not miss these phrases because they can surely mark a before and after in your life. In fact, if you think that any of these phrases is ideal for you right now, then, feel free to write it down somewhere so you can read it later or whenever you need to.

55 famous quotes from famous people of bygone eras

  1. Man is condemned to be free (Jean-Paul Sartre)
  2. The brave man is the one who not only surpasses his enemies, but also his pleasures (Democritus)
  3. Creativity requires that courage be detached from certainties (Erich Fromm)
  4. The best part of beauty is that which no image can express (Francis Bacon)
  5. The wars will continue as long as the color of the skin remains more important than that of the eyes (Bob Marley)
  6. There are no roads to peace; peace is the way (Mahatma Gandhi)
  7. The world is not in danger by bad people but by those who allow evil (Albert Einstein)
  8. There is nothing that a man is not capable of doing when a woman looks at him (Casanova)
  9. Learn to live and you will know how to die well (Confucius)
  10. Every day we know more and understand less (Albert Einstein)
  11. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you have altered yourself (Nelson Mandela)
  12. You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. Courage is developed by surviving difficult times and defying adversity (Epicurus)
  13. To work, it is enough to be convinced of one thing: that work is less boring than having fun (Charles Baudelaire)
  14. The worst thing the bad guys do is force us to doubt the good guys (Jacinto Benavente)
  15. It is better to act exposing yourself to regret it, than to regret not having done anything (Giovanni Boccaccio)
  16. I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature (Spinoza)
  17. Being independent of public opinion is the first formal condition to achieve something great (Friedrich Hegel)
  18. Where a television works, surely there is someone who is not reading (John Irving)
  19. Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who retains the ability to see beauty never grows old (Franz Kafka) phrases happiness
  20. Touch is the art of showing something without making an enemy (Isaac Newton)
  21. He who is good at making excuses is rarely good at anything else (Benjamin Franklin)
  22. Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die (Buddha)
  23. Being prepared is important, knowing how to wait for it is even more, but seizing the right moment is the key to life (Arthur Schnitzler)
  24. The strictest justice I do not think is always the best policy (Abraham Lincoln)
  25. The wise man never says everything he thinks, but always thinks everything he says (Aristotle)
  26. The world is beautiful, but it has a defect called man (Friedrich Nietzsche)
  27. What does not kill you, makes you stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche)
  28. I think, therefore I exist (René Descartes)
  29. Of all the animals of creation, man is the only one who drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and speaks without having anything to say (John Steinbeck)
  30. A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother. (Benjamin Franklin)
  31. . There is no sadder vision than that of a pessimistic young man (Mark Twain)
  32. Education is the movement from darkness to light (Allan Bloom)
  33. Knowing that it is not known, that is humility. To think that one knows what one does not know, that is disease (Lao-tse)
  34. In the end, they will not ask you what you have known, but what you have done (Jean de Gerson)
  35. Nothing is more harmful to creativity than the fury of inspiration (Umberto Eco)
  36. A heart is a wealth that is neither bought nor sold, but is given away (Gustave Flaubert)
  37. Death as the end of time that is lived can only cause fear to those who do not know how to fill the time that is given to live (Viktor Frankl)
  38. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
  39. Before I got married, I had six theories about how to educate the little ones. Now I have six little ones and no theory (Lord Rochester)
  40. Announce the pleasant message with a hundred tongues; But let the bad news reveal itself (Shakespeare)
  41. To spare is virtue, power and humility; letting oneself fall short is vileness and crime (Quevedo)
  42. he fault of our time is that its men do not want to be useful but important (Churchill) reflect on life
  43. The lack of the humanity of the computer consists in that once it is programmed and worked properly, its honesty is flawless (Isaac Asimov)
  44. The great discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their mental attitudes (William James)
  45. The human heart is an instrument with many strings; the perfect connoisseur of men knows how to make them all vibrate, like a good musician (Charles Dickens)
  46. If a person loves only one person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love, but symbiotic attachment or expanded egoism (Erich Fromm)
  47. Do not let any human being make you fall so low as to hate him (Martin Luther King)
  48. It takes a lifetime to learn to live (Seneca)
  49. It is better to remain silent and seem foolish than to speak and clear up doubts definitively (Groucho Marx)
  50. He who possesses the most, is most afraid of losing it (Leonardo Da Vinci)
  51. Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working (Picasso)
  52. Even people who claim that we can do nothing to change our destiny, look before crossing the street (Stephen Hawking)
  53. Never break the silence if it is not to improve it (Beethoven)
  54. The best way to get rid of temptation is to fall into it (Oscar Wilde)
  55. A friend is a person with whom you can think aloud (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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