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Below are many quotes that I find inspirational, philosophical, and/or humorous. There are some that I only partially believe in, but I have them posted as I feel they couldbe useful to others. If you have a quote that you think is inspirational, philosophical, humorousor any combination of those... send it to me via e-mail,and I will post it up as long as I approve of it. If your quote is posted, I will give you credit and provide a link to your page.
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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
"There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads."
"Do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for."
[After eight thousand unsuccessful trials on a nickel-iron storage battery] "Well, at least we know eight thousand things that won't work."
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress."
"There is no substitute for hard work."
"We don't know half of one millionth of 1 percent about anything."
"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I will live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of ALL citizens before the law are the rule."
"Curiosity has its own reason for existence."
"Everything should be made as simple as it is, but not simpler."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"If I had known [about the atomic bomb] I would have become a watch-maker."
"If there is a World War III, then World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win."
"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
"Never lose a holy curiosity."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
"Nothing is impossible, only improbable."
"...People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born..."
"Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will change hearts of other men [only] by changing our own hearts and speaking bravely."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Small is the number of them who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
"The most incomprehensible part of the universe is that it's comprehensible."
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."
"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."
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"...We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power..."
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
"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."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
"In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
"Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapproval be allowed to impose the conditions of its withdrawal? If so, I fear we have turned back the clock of international order."
"Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss."
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races."
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
"A great man is always willing to be little."
"Difficulties exist to be surmounted."
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
"Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it."
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view."
"Self-trust is the first secret of success."
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."
"The world belongs to the energetic."
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."
"We are wiser than we know."
"We boil at different degrees."
"What lies behind us and lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
"You can take better care of your secret than another can."
"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt."
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
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If you have any quotes you would like to see on this page please e-mail me and I'll post them up. Thanks.
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