Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. -Neils Bohr to Albert Einstein

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -Mark Twain

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -Albert Einstein

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -Robert Frost

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -Albert Einstein

Moral indignation is envy with a halo. -H. G. Wells

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. What man's mind can create, man's character can control. -Thomas Alva Edison

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -Confucius

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

Writers aren't exactly people... they are a whole lot of people trying to be one person. -Fitzgerald

It is impossible to love and be wise. -Francis Bacon

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -Robert Frost

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -Oscar Wilde

We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -Lord Rutherford

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -Oscar Wilde

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -Clive James

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, it is won behind the scenes, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. -Muhammad Ali

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. -Oscar Wilde

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no farther than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. -Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -Albert Einstein

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -Albert Einstein

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. -Albert Einstein

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

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -Mark Twain

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -G. K. Chesterton

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. -Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights. -Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else. -Winston Churchill

Of course, we are all worms--but I like to think, at least, that I am a glowworm. -Winston Churchill

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -Victor Hugo

Computers are useless, they can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -Helen Keller

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. -Helen Keller

I haven't failed, I have found 10,000 ways that don't work. -Edison

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -Albert Einstein

The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. -Shakespeare

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. -Mark Twain

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. -Abraham Lincoln

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -Pablo Picasso

In his private heart no man much respects himself. -Mark Twain

When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. -Mariah Carey (urban legend)

October. A very dangerous month for the stock market. The others are June, August, January, March, September, November, July, April, May, December, and February -Mark Twain

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -Abraham Lincoln

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relavitity. -Albert Einstein

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia -Charles Schultz

You smash it - and I'll build around it. -John Lennon

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

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. -Rudyard Kipling

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. -Dwight D Eisenhower

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on... -Winston Churchill

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -Albert Einstein

Asked what he thought of Western civilization, M. K. Gandhi said, "I think it would be an excellent idea".

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -Oscar Wilde

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei

What is moral is what you feel good after. -Ernest Hemingway

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. -William Shakespeare

All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. -Wordsworth

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -Heraclitus

Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?"
The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." -Confucius

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny- it is the light that guides your way. -Heraclitus

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Mahatma M. K. Gandhi

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