Famous Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Anna M. Uhlich:

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.

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.

John F. Kennedy:

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.

Mohammed Neguib:

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Frank Crane:

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936:

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Albert Einstein:

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna:

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

Samuel Johnson:

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

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.

Marie Curie:

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914:

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny:

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994:

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.