Albert Einstein

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

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

"Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love" - Albert Einstein

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

"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." - Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"I do not contemplate heaven and hell, you see I have friends in both places." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." - Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"An education is what you remember, after you have forgotten everything that you've learned." - Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." - Albert Einstein

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


Albert Schwitzer

"My life is my argument." - Albert Schwitzer

"The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." - Albert Schwitzer

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Schwitzer

"An optimist is a person who sees green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color blind." - Albert Schwitzer

"Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory." - Albert Schwitzer

"Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy." - Albert Schwitzer


Anonymous

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

"Work and play are words to describe the same thing under different conditions."


Anton Chekhov

"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov

"Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov

"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry." - Anton Chekhov


Benjamin Disraeli

"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Never complain and never explain." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Never take anything for granted." - Benjamin Disraeli


Bernard Shaw

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." - Bernard Shaw

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." - Bernard Shaw

"Virtue is insufficient temptation." - Bernard Shaw

"The more things a man is ashamed of the more respectable he is." - Bernard Shaw

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." - Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." - Bernard Shaw

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it." - Bernard Shaw

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not." - Bernard Shaw

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad." - Bernard Shaw

"Those who can do. These who cannot teach." - Bernard Shaw

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." - Bernard Shaw

"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics ." - Bernard Shaw

"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence." - Bernard Shaw

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it." - Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy." - Bernard Shaw

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death." - Bernard Shaw

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - Bernard Shaw


Benjamin Franklin

"Mine is better than ours." - Benjamin Franklin

"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory." - Benjamin Franklin

"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. " - Benjamin Franklin

"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. " - Benjamin Franklin

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin

"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin


Byron

"The busy have no time for tears." - Byron


Bacon

"Money is a good servant but a bad master." - Bacon


Churchill

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." - Churchill


Confucius

"Man differs from the animal only by a little, most men throw that little away."

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

"Everything has its beauty but not every one sees it." - Confucius


English Proverb

"One man’s meat is another’s poison."

"Two’s a company, three’s a crowd."


F. S. Fitzgerald

"Forgotten is forgiven."

Masaccio

"What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become." - Holy Trinity inscription


Friedrich Nietzsche

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."


George Bernard Shaw

"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."


George Orwell

"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."


Galileo Galilei

"Doubt is the father of invention."


Harry S. Truman

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."


Jean Jacoques Rousseau

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."


Jefferson

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."


Jonathan Swift

"Argument is the worst sort of conversation."


Joseph Stalin

"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."


Julius Caesar

"Here I am 32 years old. At this age, you, Alexander, had already conquered Egypt, Persia and India. Half the world lay at your feet. And I? What have I accomplished ? Hardly anything."

"Veni, Vidi, Vici. I came, I saw, I conquered."

"Men willingly believe what they wish."


Karl Marx

"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." - Karl Marx


Lewis Carrol

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."


Margaret Thatcher

"Thinking realistically never got anyone anywhere; be true to your heart and aim for your dreams."

"Consensus ? Consensus is the negation of leadership."

"Where there is discord may we bring harmony, where there is error may we bring truth, where there is doubt may we bring faith and where there is despair may we bring hope."

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

"I don't mind if my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say."

"When hecklers stand up... I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audience loves it."


Mark Twain

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."


Miguel de Cervantes

"Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn."


Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out."

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

"High politics is only common sense applied to great things."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."


Nelson Mandela

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."


Oscar Wilde

"Art never expresses anything but itself."

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist."

"Bad artists always admire each other’s work."

"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

"We are all in the gutter (Gosse), but some of us are looking at the stars."

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

"One must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life."

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

"Genius is born - not paid."

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar." - Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there."

"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire

"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."


Otto von Bismarck

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."


Russian Proverb

"When money speaks the truth is silent."