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The greatest hindrance to
freedom Is inert people.
- Anonymous

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important
principle of life that the most likely way to reach a
goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at
some more ambitious goal beyond it."
- Arnold Toynbee

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are
too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
- Charles De Gaulle

The haves and have nots can often be
traced back to the dids and did nots.
- Anonymous

"Speech is conveniently located midway
between thought and action, where it
often substitutes for both."
- John Andrew Holmes

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not
unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what
we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
- Richard Feynman

Quotes

Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

You probably wouldn't worry about what
people think of you if you could know
how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller

I believe that a scientist looking
at nonscientific problems is just
as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman

Freedom is not worth having if it does
not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a
human brain being controlled remotely, then it could
be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King

Lawyers spend a great deal of
their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Quotaria

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid
torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I
want to make it burn as brightly as possible before
handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or
condition, there are still untapped possibilities
within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
- Dr. Dale Turner

Opportunities multiply
as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

A warm smile is the universal
language of kindness.
- William Arthur Ward

"Come forth into the light of things,
let nature be your teacher."
- William Wordsworth

"There is a computer disease that anybody who
works with computers knows about. It's a very
serious disease and it interferes completely
with the work. The trouble with computers is
that you 'play' with them!"
- Richard Feynman

Quotaria

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are
the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

There are no shortcuts to
any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

We know what a person thinks
not when he tells us what he
thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"If there is no struggle,
there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass

"Children are our most
valuable natural resource."
- Herbert Hoover

“Science is the belief in the
ignorance of the experts”
- Richard P. Feynman

Quotaria

"I have never made but one prayer to God,
a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies
ridiculous.' And God granted it."
- Voltaire

Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that
everything is beautiful, including what
is ugly, everything good, especially the
bad, and everything right that is wrong.
- Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who
has wronged you, but nothing forbids you
to reflect that she is growing older every
minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
- Ambrose Bierce

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to
be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion.
It's less than the national deficit! We used to
call them astronomical numbers. Now we should
call them economical numbers."
- Richard Feynman

"Always and never are two words you
should always remember never to use."
- Wendell Johnson

"The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce, and gives
it some of the grace of tragedy."
- Steven Weinberg

Quotes

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to
pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental,
bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many
times in its fight against depression.
- E. M. Cioran

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict
myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
- Walt Whitman

"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is
say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
- Richard Feynman

"I had a monumental idea this
morning, but I didn't like it."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"You get the best out of others when
you get the best out of yourself."
- Harvey S. Firestone

"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent
scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates
beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
- Nicholas Chamfort

Quotes

"If we don't change direction soon,
we'll end up where we're going."
- Professor Irwin Corey

"Of the good in you I can speak, but not
of the evil. For what is evil but good
tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food
even in dark caves, and when it thirsts,
it drinks even of dead waters."
- Kahlil Gibran

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that."
- Richard Feynman

"Nothing is less productive than to make more
efficient what should not be done at all."
- Peter Drucker

"If you do not create your destiny, you
will have your fate inflicted upon you."
- William Irwin Thompson

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make
you free, but first it shall make you miserable."
- Carl Rogers