Quotes

The price of greatness is responsibility.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles, or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin, and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

A `No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a `Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
There is more to life than accelerating its pace.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We must become the change we want to be made.
I think it would be a good idea. (When asked what he thought about Western civilization.)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world, human as well as natural, of its own values.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. --Animal Farm
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. --1984

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Man is sitting up mud.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.