Twenty-five quotes picked to unsettle. Growth requires doubting the things you currently take for granted; these are the sentences that serve that purpose.

1. "The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates.
2. "I think, therefore I am." — Descartes.
3. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." — Socrates.
4. "Man is condemned to be free." — Sartre.
5. "The important thing is not to stop questioning." — Einstein.
6. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." — Einstein.
7. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." — Vonnegut.
8. "To thine own self be true." — Shakespeare.
9. "You are what you love, not what loves you." — Charlie Kaufman.
10. "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." — Robertson Davies.
11. "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca.
12. "Every saint has a past; every sinner has a future." — Wilde.
13. "Freedom is what we do with what has been done to us." — Sartre.
14. "Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward." — Kierkegaard.
15. "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck.
16. "The obstacle in the path becomes the path." — Aurelius.
17. "Comparison is the thief of joy." — Theodore Roosevelt.
18. "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." — Joseph Campbell.
19. "You must become the person you want to be before becoming it makes sense." — paraphrased Tolle.
20. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." — Wilde.
21. "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose." — Viktor Frankl.
22. "What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do." — Emerson.
23. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." — Wilde.
24. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." — Thoreau.
25. "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." — Yeats.

Pick three that unsettle you. Sit with them for a week. The quotes that earn a permanent place in your thinking are the ones that made you uncomfortable first.