Quotes
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Here is some of my favourite "various" quotes. My favourite movie quotes are in quotes from movies page.
If you love something, set it free.
If it doesn't return, it was never yours anyway.
If it does, love it forever.
- anonymous
Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.
- anonymous
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
- Marcel Archard
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
- Isaac Asimov
The most important things to do in this world are to get something
to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
- Brendan Behan, in "Weekend", 1968
He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
Some Albert Einstein Quotes
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but
World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated
from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
- Albert Einstein, Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms
of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
- Albert Einstein
The most precious things in life are not those one gets for money.
- Albert Einstein
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid
themsleves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillments
of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
- Albert Einstein
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
- Albert Einstein
Everything is determined by forces over which we have no control. It is determined
for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all
dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain,
as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him, I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journal", May 1849
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman
is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
- John Erskine
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
- Euripides
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.
You see more in you than there was before.
- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play", 1957
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
- Robert Fulghum
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran
Experience is not what happens to you.
It is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley, in "Reader's Digest", 1956
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
- John Junor
Without feeling there's no reason to live.
- Andr Kertsz, photographer, 1894-1985
Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.
- Kristin Kreuk
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea", 1975
Love is only the dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook" 1949
The older I grow the more I distrust
the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922
There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
It's so easy to laugh
it's so easy to hate
it takes guts to be gentle and kind.
- Morrissey
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" 1951
To be loved, be lovable.
- Ovid, "Ars Amatoria"
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence Peter
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places
no one has ever been.
- Alan Ashley-Pitt
If one wishes to obtain a definite answer from Nature one must attack the question
from a more general and less selfish point of view.
- Max Planck (1858-1947)
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
- Roman Polanski
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
- Pythagoras
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
- Socrates
A short saying contains much wisdom.
- Sophocles
If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam, xxvii"
The hunger for love is much more difficult
to remove than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa, in "Time", 4 December 1989
I think that maybe if women and children
were in charge we would get somewhere.
- James Thurber
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
- Lao Tsu
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
- Mark Twain
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables
a man to get along without an education.
Education appears to be the thing that enables
a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
- A. E. Wiggan
Friendship is even more important than honey.
- Winnie the Pooh
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
- Winnie the Pooh
