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This top-25 collection displays 25 entries from QuoteLineage, ordered by stored importance score, then quality score. These database scores are used for ordering; they do not establish historical influence, citation frequency, or authenticity.

Authors in this selection include Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, René Descartes, John Locke.

Recorded topic labels in this selection include Philosophy, Ethics, Politics, Literature, love.

Attributed to Plato, entry #10: "Necessity is the mother of invention." Recorded year: 380 BCE.

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"Necessity is the mother of invention."
— PlatoPhilosophy96

380 BCE

2
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— AristotlePhilosophy92

340 BCE

3
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— AristotlePhilosophy92

340 BCE

4
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
— SocratesPhilosophy88

399 BCE

5
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
— PlatoEthics88

380 BCE

6
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
— PlatoPhilosophy84

380 BCE

7
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— SocratesPhilosophy84

399 BCE

8
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
— AristotlePolitics84

340 BCE

9
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— AristotleEthics84

340 BCE

10
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
— René DescartesLiterature82

1637

11
"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
— John LockePolitics82

1651

12
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
— William Shakespearelove81
13
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
— Charles Dickenslove81
14
"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."
— Ralph Waldo Emersonlove81
15
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"
— Simone de Beauvoirfriendship81
16
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they …"
— Mahatma Gandhilove81
17
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, somethin…"
— Rainer Maria Rilkelove81
18
"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without ha…"
— Rainer Maria Rilkelove81
19
"he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism."
— Winston ChurchillPolitics81
20
"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"
— Winston ChurchillPolitics81
21
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
— Thomas JeffersonReligion81
22
"As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows…"
— Pythagoraslove81
23
"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte…"
— Oscar Wildelove81
24
"And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of priso…"
— Albert Camuslove81
25
"You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a…"
— Johann Wolfgang von Goetheart81

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