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Quotes: 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 answer - 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

"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

Inactivity strikes us as an intelligent behaviour (mainly related to stock market, where sitting on your investments and not doing frequent buying/selling is smarter) - Warren Buffett

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 (the 3 L's LLL) => 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

The easiest person to fool is yourself => Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

Why is pizza made round, then packed in a square box but eaten as a triangle? => Unknown

"Everyone needs to watch out from oneself. The law of Nature is => Eat or be eaten" => Dialogue in Movie

"Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense." => Quote on the license plate of John McCarthy, one of the founding fathers of AI, to highlight the importance of Maths education.

"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy (hard working or industrious). And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." — Warren Buffett