100+ Copywriting Examples to Find This Quote in a Book – Proven SNS Captions & Quotes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle, *Nicomachean Ethics*

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates, as cited in Plato’s *Apology*

“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Nicolaus Copernicus

“Knowledge is power.” – Francis Bacon, *Meditationes Sacrae*

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare, *As You Like It*

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” – Voltaire

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire

“He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.” – Lao Tzu, *Tao Te Ching*

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” – Claude Lévi-Strauss

“All movements start with a thought.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, *Essays: First Series*

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Brontë, *Wuthering Heights*

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” – Gabriel García Márquez, *Love in the Time of Cholera*

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” – Jane Austen, *Persuasion*

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – William Shakespeare, *Sonnet 116*

“In your light I learn how to love.” – Rumi

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” – Angelita Lim

“Love makes a silent room echo with laughter.” – John Green, *The Fault in Our Stars*

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, *The Lord of the Rings*

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

“We loved with a love that was strong as death.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, *You Learn by Living*

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela, *Long Walk to Freedom*

“Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is having fear and doing it anyway.” – Taylor Swift

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – J.K. Rowling, *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*

“She wasn’t doing backflips off cliffs, but she was brave in the way that mattered.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, *Eat, Pray, Love*

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” – Franklin P. Jones

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” – Megan Hart

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” – Seneca

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John Steinbeck, *East of Eden*

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown, *The Power of Vulnerability*

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Jung

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin

“I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.” – Unknown

“The road to success is always under construction.” – Lily Tomlin

“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I’m rich.” – Ray Bronson

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey

“I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.” – Gavin Pretor-Pinney

“I'm not lazy, I'm on energy-saving mode.” – Unknown

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams

“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Emo Philips

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson

“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years—I didn’t want to interrupt her.” – Rodney Dangerfield

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II

“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Victor Hugo

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather holes in heaven where all the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us.” – Eskimo Proverb

“She left me, but her memory is my companion.” – Haruki Murakami, *Norwegian Wood*

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – E.E. Cummings

“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.” – Anonymous

“Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho

“Sorrow is better than fear. Hope is better than despair.” – Madeleine L'Engle, *A Wrinkle in Time*

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir

“You can lock up my body, but you will never imprison my mind.” – Anne Frank, *The Diary of a Young Girl*

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” – Bruce Lee

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Earth has music for those who listen.” – George Santayana

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” – Khalil Gibran

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” – John Lubbock

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Heaven wears the stars as jewels; the moon is her lamp; the sun is her courtier; and the other planets her train.” – Sir Thomas Browne

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha

“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy, *War and Peace*

“Time, as it grows shorter, becomes dearer.” – Samuel Johnson

“Your relationship with time is your most important relationship.” – Alan Watts

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” – Tennessee Williams, *The Glass Menagerie*

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud

“Do not save what is left after planning, but plan around what is saved.” – Warren Buffett

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau, *Walden*

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut, *Mother Night*

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

“We live in a world where truth is relative, but consequences are absolute.” – Simon Sinek

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus