Quotes I Came Across

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[b] Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein[/b]
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[*]"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
[*]"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
[*]"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
[*]"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
[*]"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
[*]"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
[*]"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
[*]"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
[*]"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
[*]"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
[*]"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
[*]"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
[*]"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
[*]"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
[*]"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
[*]"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
[*]"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
[*]"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
[*]"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
[*]"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
[*]"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
[*]"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
[*]"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
[*]"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
[*]"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
[*]"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
[*]"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
[*]"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
[*]"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
[*]"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
[*]"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
[*]"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
[*]"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
[*]"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
[*]"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
[*]"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[*]"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
[*]"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
[*]"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
[*]"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."
[*]"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
[*]"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
[*]"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."
[*]"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."
[*]"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
[*]"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."
[*]"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."
[*]"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
[*]"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."
[*]"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
[*]"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."
[*]"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
[*]"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
[*]"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."
[*]"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
[*]"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
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[b] [b]45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old[/b][/b]
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[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]3. Life is too short not to enjoy it.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]5. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]6. You don’t have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]9. Save for things that matter.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye… But don’t worry; God never blinks.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]19. It’s never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]24. The most important sex organ is the brain.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words, ‘In five years, will this matter?’[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]27. Always choose Life.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]28. Forgive but don’t forget.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]29. What other people think of you is none of your business.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]30. Time heals almost everything. Give Time time.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]33. Believe in miracles.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]37. Your children get only one childhood.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d
grab ours back.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]42. The best is yet to come…[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]44. Yield.[/size][/font][/font][/color][color=#3E3E3E][font=Arial, Helvetica,]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][size=3]45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.[/size][/font][/font][/color]

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