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inspirations
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson
Quotes
| Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. |
| - George Washington |
| All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
| The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. |
| - Kahil Gibran |
| You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. |
| - Galileo Galilei |
| The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it serve us in the future. |
| - Jerome Bruner |
| A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. |
| - Edward R. Murrow |
| Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. |
| - Edward R. Murrow |
| When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. |
| - Edward R. Murrow |
| Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. |
| - Edward R. Murrow |
| Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. |
| - Blaise Pascal |
| Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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 |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. |
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Truth is what stands the test of experience. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
| The whole is more than the sum of its parts. |
| - Aristotle |
| Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. |
| - Henry Ford |
| It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. |
| - William G. McAdoo |
| 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. |
| - Albert Einstein |
| It's much easier to be critical than correct. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
| If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. |
| - John Stewart Mill |
| Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. |
| - Mark Twain |
| To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. |
| - Aleister Crowley |
| Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. |
| - Scott Adams |
| All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. |
| - Edward Gibbon |
| The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. |
| - John Maynard Keynes |
| When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. |
| - Indian Proverb |
| All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
| Ideas shape the course of history. |
| - John Maynard Keynes |
| The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. |
| - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
| The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. |
| - Aristotle |
| Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. |
| - Thomas Paine |
| A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. |
| - Granville Hicks |
| It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
| Carpe diem (sieze the day) |
| - Dead Poets Society |
| Tis only in their dreams that men truly be free, 'twas always thus, and always thus will be. |
| - John Keating |
| Fortis fortuna juvat (Fortune favors the brave) |
| - Virgil |
| Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back. |
| - unknown |
| The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. |
| - Thomas S. Monson |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. |
| - George Washington |
| Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. |
| - Walter Anderson |
| Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. |
| - Robert F. Kennedy |
| The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. |
| - Sigmund Freud |
| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. |
| - Gore Vidal |
| If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
| I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
| Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. |
| - Isaac Newton |
| If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. |
| - Mark Twain |
| Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. |
| - Carl Sagan |
| Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. |
| - John Maynard Keynes |