● Imagination is more important than
knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the
entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
● Concepts that have proven useful in
ordering things easily achieve such authority over us
that we forget their earthly origins and accept them
as unalterable givens.
● Physical concepts are free creations of
the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by
the external world.
● Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you
use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. (Objecting
to the placing of observables at the heart of the new quantum mechanics,
during Heisenberg's 1926 lecture at Berlin; related by Heisenberg, quoted
in Unification of Fundamental Forces (1990) by Abdus Salam)
- Albert Einstein.
● Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we
endure the operation of life.
- George Bernard Shaw
● The heights by great men reached and
kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions
slept were toiling upward in the night.
- Longfellow
● Fine words and an insinuating
appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
● When things are investigated, then true
knowledge is achieved;
When true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere;
When the will is sincere, then the heart is set right;
When the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated;
When the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated;
When the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly;
And when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in the world.
● I hear and I forget. I see and I
remember. I do and I understand.
● I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I
do not know others.
● The father who does not teach his son
his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them.
● When anger rises, think of the
consequences.
● When embarking on the journey of
revenge, dig two graves.
● Study the past if you would divine
the future.
● If you see what is right and fail to
act on it, you lack courage.
● Respect yourself and others will
respect you.
● It does not matter the number of times
we fall but the number of times we rise when we fall.
● Listen widely to remove your doubts and
be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.
- Confucius
● People generally quarrel because
they cannot argue.
- G.K.Chesterton
● Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a
compliment to say it is brave.
- Mark Twain
● Happy is the man who learns from the
misfortunes of others.
- Aesop
● I believe that Gandhi's
views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time. We
should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting
for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil.
—
Albert Einstein
● A certain amount of opposition is a great
help for man. Kites rise against, and not with the wind. No man ever
worked his passage in a dead calm.
- John Neal.
● It is hardly surprising that women
concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since
not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
- Mary Shelley
● Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis
something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not
enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
- William Shakespeare
● Our ignorance of history makes us libel
our own times. People have always been like this.
- Gustave Flaubert
● If there is no struggle, there is no
progress.
- Frederick Douglass
● It only seems as if you are doing
something when you're worrying.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
● Keep a level-head. There re two occasions
when we need this advice; When we make a big success, and when we make a
big failure.
- Herbert N Carson
● The strongest man in the world is he who
stands most alone.
-Ibsen
● Five things are requisite to a good officer:
ability, clean hands, speed, patience and
impartiality.
- William Penn
● Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need
it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
● We are inclined to believe those whom we do
not know because they have never deceived us.
- Samuel Johnson
● Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two
bodies.
- Aristotle
● The art of being happy lies in the power of
extracting happiness from common things.
- H.W.Beecher
● There is no better exercise for the heart
than reaching down and lifting somebody up.
- John Andrew Holmes
● Do you love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
● One may smile and smile and be a villain
still.
- William Shakespeare
● Those who are greedy of praise prove that
they are poor in merit.
- Plutarch
● That which is selfish is immoral and that
which is unselfish is moral.
- Swami Vivekananda
● Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but
truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
- Swami Vivekananda
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