Quotes

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

When Isaac Newton stayed at home to avoid the 1665 Plague, he discovered the Laws of Gravity, Optics, and he invented Calculus.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Van Goethe

"One beautiful heart is better than thousand beautiful faces.
-William Shakespeare

THE WORLD IS A DANGEROUS PLACE TO LIVE; NOT BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE EVIL, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
- Pluto

Into the music I go ,to lose my mind, and find my soul.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
- HEGEL

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be

"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone."
- William Shakespeare

"Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness."
- Leo Tolstoy

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
— Bertrand Russell —

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.
TFTS

The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land.

The problem is that you've given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind.
- Bill Hicks,

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
- Carl Sagan

Never forget who helped you in difficult times, who left you in difficult times, and who put you in difficult times.

"The earth has music for those who listen."
- William Shakespeare

The first thing that ding teaches us is how to be alone."
-Jonathan Franzen

"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
- Sun Tzu

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
- VICTOR HUGO

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
- HORACE WALPOLE

"It is essential that we not respond impulsively... take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control."
- EPICTETUS

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing
- Aristotle

I am not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on i can't believe you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
- HORACE WALPOLE

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."
- Carl Sagan

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin

"Politics is the only profession where vou can lie, cheat, and steal, and still be respected."
— Mark Twain —

I do not fear being alone, my dear; I fear being in a room full of people I cannot trust.
- Brooke Hampton

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
- Martin Luther King

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies."
- Noam Chomsky

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Kahlil Gibran

"The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them."
Erasmus, 1509

"Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better."
- Prof. Brian Cox

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
- NOGGIO MACHIAVELLI

It is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect.
- HERMANN HESSE

'The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.'
- Jonathan Franzen

"Understanding a question is half an answer."
- Socrates

Family is not about blood. It's about who's willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.

A good woman is not interested in your money or your status. What she wants from you is your time, loyalty, love and commitment.

"Weak people revenge.
Strong people forgive.
Intelligent People Ignore."
- Albert Einstein -

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
- THOMAS PAINE

"All these years I have spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing, but insults and humiliation"
- Nikola Tesla last message to his Mother.

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness."
- Anne Frank

Beware of false knowled it is more dangerous tha ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw

«The more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows."
- L. Frank Baum

" A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence."
- Pythagoras

Karma Says - Hide your sadness And keep smiling
Because even if you show Your sadness to someone
No one will care

I am exactly where I want to be. At home, avoiding people.

Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people.
- Chanda Kaushik

"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
- GEORGE ORWELL, 1984

"I cried when I had No Shoes, But I stopped crying when I saw a man without Legs".
- Shakespeare

I have a therapist. Her name is music.

The greatest enemy of knowledge, it is the illusion of knowledge
-Stephen Hawking

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise. Love is enough to get everything done.
- Charlie Chaplin

"Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin

The bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how god sees things
-Marcus J. Borg

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
- A. Edward Newton

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."
-Nikola Tesla

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.
- WILLIAM BLAKE

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
- Bruce Lee

A true l leader doesn’t create separation. A true leader brings people together.
You can imagine the reality but you can’t ignore consequences of ignoring that reality.
- Ayn Rand

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
- Gustave Flaubert, 1880

It thaw two years to learn to speak And sixty to learn to keep quiet.
- Ernest Hemingway

A mind is Luke parachute, it doesn’t t work if it’s not open.
- Frank Zappa

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
— Plato

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies."
- Noam Chomsky

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
- Voltaire

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
- Noam Chomsky

" Avoiding facts and refusing to ecognize mistakes is the absolu definition of pure stupidity. "
- ELYNNE ALVAREZ

"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
- Benjamin Franklin

Maybe if we tell people the brain is an app, they'll start using it.

The problem isn't a lack of money, food, water or land.

"WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM THE FIRST TIME."
- MAYA ANGELOU

NEVER APPROACH A BULL FROM THE FRONT, A HORSE FROM BEHIND, AN IDIOT FROM ANY DIRECTION.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

"Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Avoid people who mess with your head, say things to upset you, and want you to make them a priority but won't do the same for you. Avoid people who don't apologize.
You don't need these kinds of people. Avoid them.
- Ann Hathaway

Art is to console those who are broken by life.
- Vincent Van Gogh

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
- William Shakespeare

Stand up for what is right

Even if you stand alone.
Learning never exhaust the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
- Goethe

"Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists."
- Nikola Tesla.

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
— René Descartes

"I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy th nothing they have in peace."
-Federico García Lorca

"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them."
- Charles Bukowski

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- Simone Veil

"the greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
- Wole Soyinka

I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
- James Baldwin

No great mind has ever existed without touch of madness.
- Aristotle

Most of the trouble n i the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
- T.S. Eliot

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
- Nelson Mandela

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful.
- George Orwell

History teaches us that nam learns nothing from history.
- Georg Hegel

Evil begins when you be beging to treat people as things.
- Terry Pratchett

You can not be wise and in live at this same time.
- Bob Dylan

Politics is the only profession where you lie, cheat, and steal and still be respected.
- Mark Twain

Maybe this world is another planets he’ll.
- Akdouus Haxley

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
- Charles Bukowski

He who dares not offend can not be honest.
- Thomas Paine

The best way to avoid disappointment is not to expect anything from anyone.
- Morgan Freeman

Have more then you show, Speak less than you know.
- William Shakespeare

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
- Adam Smith

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.
- Marcus Aurelius

Ignorance is a root and stem for all evil.
- Plato

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- Mark Twain

Wise men speaker because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something.
- Plato

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
- Mark Twain

Being poor is only romantic in books.
- Sydney Sheldon

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-dust.
We are way for the universe to know itself.
- Carl Sagan

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to do sure of themselves.
- Franz Kafka

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

A person hears only what they understand.
- Wolfgang Goethe

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want to their illusion destroyed.
- Nietzsche

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is kind and gentle spirit.
- Anne Frank

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
- Khalil Gibran

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
- Ayn Rand

Bigotry is a disease of ignorance of morbid mind.
- Thomas Jefferson

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare

Love all,
Trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare

Three great forces rule the world: stupidly, fear and greed.
- Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
- Thomas Mann

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- unknown

The path to wisdom is paved with humility, openness to new ideas, and willingness to challenge one’s own beliefs.
- Socrates

The measure of the man is what he dies with power.
- Plato

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
- William Shakespeare

The educated differ from uneducated as much as a living differ from the dead.
- Aristotle

Even the darkest night will end and sun will rise.
- Victor Hugo

Wherever Law ends, Tyrant begins.
- John Lock

Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin

Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- mark Twain

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Pluto

Kindness is a language that deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

You can’t treat people like garbage and worship God at this same time.
Excellence is never an accident.
It always a result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.
- Aristotle

No human race is superior,
no religtious faith inferior.
All collective judgments are wrong,
only racists make them.
- Elie Wiesel

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

I have always been a fan of the idea of fairness and, since childhood, have hated to see the strong abuse the weak.
- Lyubov Sobol

Success is not final, failure is not fatal,
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
- Hippolyte Taine

Wherever Law ends, Tyrant begins.
- John Lock

Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin

The Earth has music for those who listen.
- George Santayana

I would go mad if I didn't write the voices. (...)
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. (...)
All eyes and no sight (...)
Not so much brain as ear wax (...)
Mountain of mad flash (...)
I do desire we may be better strangers (...)
All the infection that the sun sucks up (...)
Highly fed and lowly taught (...)
Lump of foul deformity (...)
O Guli, o Dolt, as I ignorant as dirt (...)
The soul of this man is his clothes (...)
Quintessence of dust (...)
A fusty nut with no kernel (...)
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. (...)
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. (...)
We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded sleep. (...)
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (...)
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. (...)
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. (...)
If music be the food of love, play on. (...)
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. (...)
Listen to many, speak to a few.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

His words shall be remembered as long as words are made of breath and breath of live...
- (about Shakespeare)

Good does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
- Dag Hammarskjold - former head of UN

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.
- Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) - Seeing is Unbelieving (NYT)

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts".
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple".
- Oscar Wilde

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln

"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."
- Joshua Reynolds

"The journey itself is my home."
- Matsuo Basho

Rejoyce young man in the youth!
- Ecclesiastes

"A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves."
- Willa Cather

One does not become enlighteNed by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness concious.
- C. G. Jung

It is far better to be alone, then to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
- Spinoza

It is betrer to be silent then to dispute with the ignorant.
- Phytagoras

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because majority share in it.
- Leo Tolstoy

"The real loser: truth"
- The New York Times

The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting then any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in Nature and his relation to the Cosmos.
- Thomas H. Huxley

The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
- Newton

Imagination is more important than knowledge.(...)
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this phenomenon or that. I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details. (...)
Science without religion is lame. But religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind intuition.
- Albert Einstein

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation
- Eliot S. Onizuka

The cause of freedom is not a case of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very bright right of humanity.
- Anna Julia Cooper

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Kahlil Gibran

World is full of good people. If you can't find one, be one.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity
- Kahlil Gibran

"Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest."
- William Faulkner

"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity
is to contemplate the extend of Human stupidity. "
- Carlita Cooke

"We'll always have secrets: the ones we keep and the ones kept from us."

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

One may smile and smile and be a villain. (...)
Is a government worth preserving when it lies to the people? It's become a dangerous country when you cannot trust anyone. When you cannot tell the truth. I say "let justice be done, though the heavens fall"! (...)
Individual human beings have to create justice, and this is not easy because the truth often poses a threat to power and one often has to fight power at great risk to themselves. (...)
"Treason doth never prosper," wrote an English poet (...)
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." wrote an American naturalist.
- Jim Garrison ("JFK")

Authority forgets a dying king.
- Tennyson

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold a gift to be cherished, true friendship is a treasure beyond compare. (***)
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Cherrie Galer

To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Have you come to me from heaven or am I in heaven with you ...
- Il Trovatore, (by Giuseppe Verdi based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez)

But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.
- William Blake

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
- Elie Wiesel

When Darkness becomes your Light, what else is there left to fear?
- Sarina Singh

It is much easier to make war then peace.
- Georges Clemenceau (at Paris Peace Conference, 1919)

No matter what I do ... I am wrong ... We are just ducks in a shooting gallery. Any duck will do.
- Joshua Wolf Shenk - "What Makes Us Happy?"

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates. (...)
Innovation is the distinction between a leader and a follower. (..)
Our friends up north (Microsoft) spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. (...)
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
- Steve Jobs

The only way to be happy is to love.
(...) Unless you love, your life will flash by.
- The Tree of Life (movie)

Who doesn't know his past - his present is low, and his future is uncertain.
- Hebrew saying

"Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin."
- Eva Longoria

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
- Rumi

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
- Harry S. Truman

"Laws are dumb in the midst of arms."
(Silent enim leges inter arma.)
- Cicero (Pro Milone)

A high degree of intelect tends to make a man unsocial.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weekness.
- Erich Fromm

***

Opera is the greatest gift that God has given man in art.

People should be more capturing the holiness of the holiday ...

Freedom is not free

All things excellent are difficult.

Everyone sojourning in the flesh is passing through this earth to a mysterious state of future bliss ...
The Pilgrim's progress is toward no earthly destination.
- Pilgrimage

Only fools never doubt (...)
Good bye Love, my dearest Love...
- King Arthur (Camelot)

Part of what allows me to be happy is that I can be sad.
- Eleanor Dubinsky

It ain' t what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W.C. Fields

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein

I guess Tosca isn't for everyone...
- Quantum of Solace (2008)

Alone!!! I'm alone, I'm always alone no mater what.
- Marilyn Monroe

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.
- Eben Alexander

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. (...)
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (...)
Freedom and justice for each human being.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting"
-Sun Tzu

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence"
- JW

People laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at them because they are this same.
- Sarah AlShalan

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
- Ram Dass

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

"At all times there were women who where revolutionary minded, who fanatically worked toward implementing their ideas, who fought for their rights and went to jail for their beliefs."
- Andrei Tolokonnikov (about his daughter Nadia Tolokonnikova)

Judge us not on our sins, but our love.
- Katharine Hepburn - "The African Queen" - 1 John 2:1

I am sorry for many things that are occurring  in this kingdom. The good seen to suffer, and the wicked to prosper.
- Eustace Chapuys, the Spanish Imperial Ambassador "The Tudors"

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.
- Anna Boleyn

Since no Parliament can make such a law it has no competence to decide on the existence of God. And no more can Parliament make the king supreme head of the Church. (...)
Only tell the king what he ought to do not what he could do... (...)
For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him (...)
We are standing on the edge of the abyss. God knows what shell become of us.
- Thomas Moore

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out. (...)
Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness. (...)
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
- Amba Shultz

We must all exceed our expectations. (...)
I'm the master of my fate (...)
I'm the captain of my soul. (...)

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

My only love, sprung from my only hate.
To early seen unknown, and known to late.
Prodigious birth of love it is to me...
that I must love a loathed enemy.
- Shakespeare "Romeo & Juliet"

How you can be so blind with eyes that big?
- from movie "A Million Ways to Die in the West"

Nothing is more precious then being in the present moment. Fully alive fully aware.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
- Sir Isaac Newton

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reason to stay.
- Dalai Lama

Apologizing doesn't always mean you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more then your ego.

The quiter you become, the more you can hear.
- Ram Dass

I always try to portray characters as stretched between their passins, their mysteries and the external world.
- Mariusz Terliński

Four essential human freedoms.
1) The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.
2) The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.
3) The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.
4) The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-- anywhere in the world.
- FDR

Shiduri said, (...)
But until the end comes, enjoy your life,
spend it in happiness, not despair.
Savor your food, make each of your days
a delight, bathe and anoint yourself,
wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean,
let music and dancing fill your house.
love the child who holds you by the hand,
and give your wife a pleasure in you embrace.
That is the best way for a man to live."
- Gilgamesh, by Steven Mitchell