"The observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."

Alfred Nobel.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."

Robert Capa.

"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."

Paul Kagame.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

Marcel Proust.

When planning for a year, plant corn.
When planning for a decade, plant trees.
When planning for life, train people.

Chinese Proverb

"The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment."

Justin Langer.

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant.

"The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay."

Henry Ford.

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

Aristotle.

"So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me."

Charles Dickens.

"No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it."

Peter Drucker

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

Milton Berle.

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

Mark Twain.

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

Oscar Wilde.

"Love is the bane of honour, the death of duty."

George RR Martin.

"The things we love destroy us every time. Remember that."

George RR Martin.

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

George RR Martin.

"Swift as a deer, quiet as a shadow, quick as a snake, calm as still water, fear cuts deeper than swords.

George RR Martin.

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone."

George RR Martin.

"People die at their dinner tables, die in their beds. Everybody dies, sooner or later. Don't worry about your death. Worry about your life. Take charge of your life, for as long as it lasts."

George RR Martin.

"The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted."

George RR Martin.

"No one can survive in this world without help. No one."

George RR Martin.

"A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep."

George RR Martin.

"Love is the death of duty; sometimes, duty is the death of love."

George RR Martin.

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"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."

George RR Martin.

“Respect is how the young keep us at a distance, so we don’t remind them of an unpleasant truth - nothing lasts."

George R. R. Martin.

"A very small man can cast a very large shadow."

George R. R. Martin.

"Any man who must say 'I am the King' is no true king."

George R. R. Martin.

"It’s easy to confuse ‘what is’ with ‘what ought to be,’ especially when ‘what is’ has worked out in your favour.”

George R. R. Martin.

"Let me give you some advice, never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour, and it can never be used to hurt you."

George R. R. Martin.

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."

George R. R. Martin.

From Game of Thrones

"Those who dance are considered mad by those who cannot hear the music."

Friedrich Nietzsche.

"Toleration is the best religion." 

Victor Hugo.

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

Mahatma.