21 Quotes for 2021

Jake Huang
2 min readSep 21, 2021

Words.

1. “The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”

— Edward Gibbon

2. “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

— Aristotle

3. “Those who know, do. Those who understands, teach.”

— Aristotle

4. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”

— Abraham Lincoln

5. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

6. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

— Arthur Ashe

7. “A man is not old until regrets takes the place of dreams.”

— John Barrymore

8. “Everything popular is wrong.”

— Oscar Wilde

9. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

— Richard Feynman

10. “Anyone who lives within their means suffer from the lack of imagination.”

— Oscar Wilde

11. “Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player not the chess piece.”

— Ralph Charell

12. “Never automate something that can be eliminated and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined.”

— Tim Ferriss

13. “Creation is a better means of self expression than possession; it is through creating not possessing that life is revealed.”

— Vida D. Scudder

14. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

15. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

— Aristotle

16. “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing”

— Warren Buffett

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

— Aristotle

18. “There are people who live in the dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into another.”

— Douglas H. Everett

19. “It is fatal to know to much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who know his route as to the novelist is over certain of his plot.”

— Paul Theroux

20. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”

— Aristotle

21. “I would like to speak to the manager.”

— Karen

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Jake Huang

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