447. QUOTES - Famous People

Good Quotations by Famous People:

 

1.      "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."  - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

2.      "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."  - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

3.      "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." 

4.      "Don't be so humble - you are not that great."  - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

5.      "His ignorance is encyclopedic"  - Abba Eban (1915-2002)

6.      "If a man does his best, what else is there?"  - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

7.      "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."  - Charlton Heston (1924-)

8.      "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." 

- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

9.      "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."  - Robert Pirsig (1948-)

10.  "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."  - Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)

11.  "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

-          A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) 

12.  "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."  - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

13.  "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."  - Saint Augustine (354-430)

14.  "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

-          Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

15.  "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

16.  "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

17.  "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."  - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

18.  "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."  - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

19.  "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

-          Richard Dawkins (1941-)

20.  "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."  - Emile Zola (1840-1902)

21.  "This book fills a much-needed gap."  - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

22.  "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."  - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy

23.  "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."  - e e Cummings

24.  "Give me a museum and I'll fill it."  - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

25.  "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."  - Yogi Berra

26.  "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."  - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

27.  "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."

-          Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

28.  "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  - Martin Luther King Jr

29.  "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

30.  "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."  - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

31.  "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."  - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

32.  "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."  - George Burns (1896-1996)

33.  "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."  - Ludwig Wittgenstein

34.  "There are no facts, only interpretations."  - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

35.  "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.

36.  "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."  - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

37.  "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."  - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

38.  "Dancing is silent poetry."  - Simonides (556-468bc)

39.  "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."  - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

40.  "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."  - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

41.  "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

-          Plato (427-347 B.C.)

42.  "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."  - George Bernard Shaw

43.  "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."  - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

44.  "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."  - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

45.  "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

46.  "We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

47.  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

48.  "I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

49.  "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

50.  "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

51.  "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

52.  "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

53.  "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."

-          Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

54.  "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."

-          Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

55.  "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

-          Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

56.  "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

-          Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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57.  "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

-          Voltaire (1694-1778)

58.  "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

-          H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

59.  "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

-          Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

60.  "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

-          Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

61.  "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

-          J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

62.  "Facts are the enemy of truth."

-          Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"

63.  "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

-          George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

64.  "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

-          Anais Nin (1903-1977)

65.  "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-          Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

66.  "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."

-          Frederick (II) the Great

67.  "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

-          Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

68.  "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."  

-          George Eliot (1819-1880)

69.  "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable

446. QUOTES - ALBERT EINSTEIN

Albert Einstein - QUOTES

Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist.

He is best known for his

1.    Theory of relativity and

2.    Specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc².

3.    Special theory of relativity

4.    General theory of relativity

5.    Time reversal

6.    Photon – photon collision

      Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

      Works by Albert Einstein include more than fifty scientific papers and also non-scientific books.

      Einstein is revered by the physics community, and in 1999 Time magazine named him the "Person of the Century".

      He is probably the most recognized scientist in history, as well as one of the most important, counted among or even surpassing the achievements of Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin.

      In wider culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.

Quotations

1.    A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.

2.    Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

3.    As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

4.    At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. (In a letter to Max Born, 1926)

5.    Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

6.    Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (attributed)

7.    Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

8.    Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.

9.    Truth is what stands the test of experience.

10. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. ("Out of My Later Years," 1950)

11. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. (attributed)

12. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

13. For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognize our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

14. God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean.

15. Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

16. Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. (quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940)

17. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

18. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

19. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

20. I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

21. If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. (Observer, Jan. 15, 1950)

22. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

23. If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

24. If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

25. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

26. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

27. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (attributed)

28. It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

29. It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. ('Treasury for the Free World,' 1946)

30. It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

31. If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z.
_ X is work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut.

32. It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

33. Imagination is more important than knowledge ...

34. Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

35. Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else - unless it is an enemy.

36. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

37. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

38. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

39. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

40. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

41. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ("Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941)

42. So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

43. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

44. Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

45. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. (attributed)

46. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

47. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

48. The independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. (Einstein wrote in 1944)

49. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

50. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

51. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

52. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

53. The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. (attributed)

54. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. (Telegram, 24 May 1946)

55. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

56. Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalism.

57. To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

58. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

59. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

60. Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

61. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

62. When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

63. What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

64. When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. (The World as I See It.)

65. When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.

66. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

67. You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. (attributed)

68. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. (when asked to describe radio)