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Various quotes here from all over the place:

Ancient Chinese Quotes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vOojviWwRk

Three things never come back = Time, words and opportunity. So, never waste your time, choose your words, and never miss an opportunity - Confucius

There are 1000 lessons in a defeat, but only 1 in a victory - Confucius

Learn as if you are constantly lacking in knowledge, and as if you are constantly afraid of losing your knowledge - Confucius

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished - Lao Tzu

The one who asks a question is a fool for a moment but the one who never asks any is a fool for life - unknown

“If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than who you are” - Master Shifu

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people - Socrates

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people learn from their experiences, stupid people already have all their answers - Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates

The right question is usually more important than the right anwer - Plato

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. — Mortimer Adler

 Courage is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm - Churchill

 There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. – John Adams 1826. 

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. ― Albert Einstein

 As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance - Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide  -- from Historic novel - Romance of the three kingdom. This simply states the obvious that Unity succeeds division and division follows unity. One is bound to be replaced by the other after a long span of time. This is the way with things in the world.

Difference between understanding and knowing - understanding is more important and thus the goal of learning.
 
"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" => Parkinson's Law
 
“EVERYONE IS A GENIUS! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein.
 
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”— Albert Einstein.
 
"We are better understood as a collection of minds in a single body than as having one mind per body" - Unknown. The gist of this is that when we are able to accept other people's view by keeping our minds open, we are going to go a long way towards being accepted and having constructive arguments.
 
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan
 
 Puzzle: Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. What is it? => NOTHING

 A Woman's Loyalty is judged when the man has nothing And The Man's Loyalty is judged when he has everything => Somebody

 “Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is potential power. Execution of your knowledge is power” =>   Tony Robbins

"The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing" => unknown

"If I owe you $1K, I've a problem, but if I owe you $1M, yo have a problem" => old saying

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. => unknown

 Taste success once, come once more => movie "83"

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” – Richard Feynman

The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us => Unknown

“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.” => Mark Twain

"Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind." => Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is Force Multilpier => Steve Ballmer's speech

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient” - Warren Buffett

"Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way" - Tom Freston

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” - Unknown

"The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy." - Charles T Munger (Warren Buffett's partner and a billionaire)

"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more." - Charles T Munger 

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you are going to work until you die - Warren Buffett

Three things that can make a smart person go broke => Liquor, Ladies and Leverage (the 3 L's LLL)  => Charlie Munger

Duniya mein itna gum hai, mera gum to kitna kum hai (There's so much sorrow in the world, that my sorrow is negligible) => Hindi Movie song

 "If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you." =>unknown

 There are only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage => Charlie Munger (told by Warren Buffett in a shareholder meeting)

“My game in life was always to avoid all standard ways of failing, You teach me the wrong way to play poker and I will avoid it. You teach me the wrong way to do something else, I will avoid it. And, of course, I’ve avoided a lot, because I’m so cautious.” - Charlie Munger