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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

- Simeon Strunsky - No Mean City (1944)

Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous.

- Sam Malone - Cheers

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.

To save time is to lengthen life.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

Hate pollutes the mind.

The guilty catch themselves.

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

Age withers only the outside.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

People who know the least always argue the most.

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Author Unknown - (apocryphal)
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

The shortest answer is the doing the thing.

Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Friendship is love with understanding.

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

- Author Unknown

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations ? Book Three
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius
All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations ? Book Seven
All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations ? Book Six
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.
Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations ? Book Ten
Waste no more time arguing what a god man should be. Be one.

The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations ? Book Twelve
All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations - Book Eleven
Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling.
Marcus Aurelius
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations, Book nine

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

- Will Cuppy

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.

- South

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

- Michael Pritchard

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Two people kissing always look like fish.

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I am a deeply superficial person.

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Art is anything you can get away with.

- Andy Warhol

This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic.

- Alexis DeTocqueville

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw - "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw - The Apple Cart (1930)
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) act 1
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara (1907) act 3
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
George Bernard Shaw - "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) act 3
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
George Bernard Shaw - when asked on his deathbed, ?What would you do if you could live your life over again?
I?d like to be the person I could have been but never was.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw - An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry
George Bernard Shaw - Candida (1898) act 1
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman, 1903
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw - Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw - Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
He who has never hoped can never despair.

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw - Annajanska (1919)
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1916) preface
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
George Bernard Shaw - "St. Joan"
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Bernard Shaw - Major Barbara (1907) act 2
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw - Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) act 3
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw - "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter
You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not?

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw - "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw - Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw - "Answers to Nine Questions"
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1916) preface
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw - The Philanderer (1898) act 2
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw - Candida (1898) act 1
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw - Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

- George Bernard Shaw

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

- Shahrukh Khan - a famous actor in india

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein - The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
Albert Einstein
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein - Out of My Later Years
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein - when asked to describe radio
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
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
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
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
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 - quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Albert Einstein
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein - Telegram, 24 May 1946
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein - quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
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 - on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein
"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein - "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein
Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein - 1929
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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
My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.
Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
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
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I?m a German, and Germany will say that I?m a jew.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein - On Education
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
Albert Einstein
When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Albert Einstein - Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein - "Autobiographical Notes"
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Albert Einstein
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
Albert Einstein - speech
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
Albert Einstein
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein
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
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
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
"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
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein - In a letter to Max Born, 1926
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
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 - Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein - 1879-1955
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein
"I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since 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 patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be 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
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein - when asked to describe radio
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 - The World as I See It.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, 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 us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein - Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his let
Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble 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
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein - Sc
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein - (attributed)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

- Albert Einstein - Physics and Reality [1936]