Recently Added Quotes |
Subject |
Quote |
Author |
Movies |
"When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before." |
Roger Ebert |
Movies |
"Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move." |
Roger Ebert |
Error |
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
Failure |
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
Error |
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Excellence |
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Failure |
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Perseverance |
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Violence |
"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." |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Suffering |
"Self-mutilation is a very different issue to suicide. It is a controlled pain personal to you, allowing you to live/exist to some degree." |
Richey James Edwards |
Adversity |
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." |
Albert Einstein |
Adversity |
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." |
Albert Einstein |
America |
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." |
Albert Einstein |
Appearances |
"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds." |
Albert Einstein |
Authority |
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." |
Albert Einstein |
Curiosity |
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." |
Albert Einstein |
Discussion |
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." |
Albert Einstein |
Excellence |
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." |
Albert Einstein |
Excellence |
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." |
Albert Einstein |
Foolishness |
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." |
Albert Einstein |
Future |
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." |
Albert Einstein |
Honesty |
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." |
Albert Einstein |
Imagination |
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." |
Albert Einstein |
Importance |
"Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts can be counted." |
Albert Einstein |
Integrity |
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." |
Albert Einstein |
Love |
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for falling in love." |
Albert Einstein |
Mohandas Gandhi |
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood." |
Albert Einstein |
Mystery |
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. |
Albert Einstein |
Perseverance |
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." |
Albert Einstein |
Quarrel |
"You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time." |
Albert Einstein |
Quarrel |
"World War Three will be fought with weapons of mass destruction. World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones." |
Albert Einstein |
Quarrel |
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." |
Albert Einstein |
Reality |
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." |
Albert Einstein |
Reality |
"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 |
Religion |
"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 |
Religion |
"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details." |
Albert Einstein |
Religion |
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil." |
Albert Einstein |
Science |
"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." |
Albert Einstein |
Simplicity |
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." |
Albert Einstein |
Simplicity |
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction." |
Albert Einstein |
Sin |
"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 |
Sin |
"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details." |
Albert Einstein |
Sin |
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil." |
Albert Einstein |
Success |
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." |
Albert Einstein |
Technology |
"It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity." |
Albert Einstein |
Technology |
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." |
Albert Einstein |
Truth |
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." |
Albert Einstein |
Variety |
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." |
Albert Einstein |
Variety |
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." |
Albert Einstein |
War |
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, science for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." |
Albert Einstein |
War |
"World War Three will be fought with weapons of mass destruction. World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones." |
Albert Einstein |
War |
"You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time." |
Albert Einstein |
Wisdom |
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. |
Albert Einstein |
World |
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." |
Albert Einstein |
Leadership |
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
Politicians |
"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy." |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
Exploration |
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" |
Dan Eldon |
Ambition |
"It is never to late to be what you might have been." |
George Eliot |
Adversity |
"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Ambition |
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Ending |
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Ending |
"This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Exploration |
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Reality |
"Human kind cannot bear very much reality." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Regrets |
"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Science |
"The book [Future of an Illusion] testifies to the fact that the genius of experimental science is not necessarily joined with the genius of logic or generalizing power." |
Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Obscenity |
"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great." |
Henry Havelock Ellis |
Optimism |
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum." |
Henry Havelock Ellis |
Ambition |
"Hitch your wagon to a star." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Art / Artists |
"Every artist was first an amateur." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Art / Artists |
"Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Character |
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Character |
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Excellence |
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Excellence |
"To be great is to be misunderstood." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Excellence |
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Expectations |
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Expression |
"Beauty without expression is boring." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear |
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Friends |
"The only way to have friends is to be one." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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