Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

Arthur Schopenhauer's Popular Quotes

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he…

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

- Arthur Schopenhauer