--Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all
other alternatives.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things
that won't work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like
work.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
– Tryon Edwards
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be
wiser on the morrow than he is today.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world
Imagination is more important than knowledge
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by
the laughter of the Gods
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true
art and science
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful
muscles, but no personality
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
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty
girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever
walked the face of this earth
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we
gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and
space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the
rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison
for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to enhance all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough
The important thing is not to stop questioning
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent
the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be
merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new
possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and
marks real advances in science.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty
girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent
the necessity of solving an existing one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor
in freedom.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the
fight in the dog.
Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not
so heavy a burden as a
prisoner's chains.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get
out of their way and let
them have it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the
fight in the dog.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its
members.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value
will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful
life.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power
and enlarges our field of action.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
A man is known by the books he reads.
-- Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-- John Erskine
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A
charming woman is one who notices me.
-- Susan Ertz
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy
Sunday afternoon.
-- Marie Ebner-Eschenbach,
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
-- Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Richard Exely
Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to
try again does!
