Albert Einstein :
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Shakespeare
(1)
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
(2)
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
(3)
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
(4)
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
(5)
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Ben Stein
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Barbara Hall
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist - Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
Indian politician (1917 - 1984)
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - Mahatma Gandhi
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Shakespeare
(1)
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
(2)
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
(3)
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
(4)
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
(5)
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Ben Stein
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Barbara Hall
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist - Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
Indian politician (1917 - 1984)
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong - Mahatma Gandhi
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi