● To those who do not know mathematics it
is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the
deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about
nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the
language that she speaks in. [The Character of Physical Law
(1965) Ch. 2]
● All mass is interaction.
● What I cannot create, I do not
understand.
● I think that it is much more likely
that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational
characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational
efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
● Is no one inspired by our present
picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers,
you are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture
about it. This is not yet a scientific age.
- Richard Feynman.
● A bore is a person who opens his mouth
and puts his feats in it.
● Chop your own wood, and it will warm
you twice.
- Henry Ford
● The most exciting phrase to hear in
science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but
'That's funny ...'
● The saddest aspect of life right now is
that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov.
● The ideally non-violent state will be
an ordered anarchy.
● It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I
simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life
consists of nothing but those experiments.
● An eye for an eye will make the whole
world blind.
●
We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
● An error does not become truth by
reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because
nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is
self sustained.
● Seven social sins: politics without
principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge
without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,
and worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
● Sensual passions are your first army.
Your second is called Discontent.
Your third is Hunger & Thirst.
Your fourth is called Craving.
Fifth is Sloth & Drowsiness.
Sixth is called Terror.
Your seventh is Uncertainty.
Hypocrisy & Stubbornness, your eighth.
Gains, Offerings, Fame, & Status wrongly gained,
and whoever would praise self
& disparage others.
That, Namuci, is your army,
the Dark One's commando force.
A coward can't defeat it,
but one having defeated it
gains bliss.
● True charity occurs only when there
are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
● There is no wealth like knowledge,
and no poverty like ignorance.
- Gautama Buddha
● We meet to create memories and depart to
preserve them. To meet and to depart is the way of life, but to depart and
meet is the hope of life.
● Living in favourable & non-favourable
situations is a part of life.. But smiling in all those situations is
called art of life..
● A friend is someone who is there for you when
he'd rather be anywhere else.
- Len Wein
● A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
● Those friends thou hast, and their adoption
tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
● If you judge people, you have no time to love
them.
- Mother Teresa
● I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the
good I know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin
● Misfortune shows those who are not really
friends.
- Aristotle
● Grief can take care of itself, but to get the
full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
● Thus nature has no love for solitude, and
always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is
found in the most intimate friendship.
- Cicero
● Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the
longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
● The best mirror is an old friend.
- George Herbert
● What is a friend? A single soul in two
bodies.
- Aristotle
● The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Saint Jerome
● I count myselt in nothing else so
happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.
- William Shakespeare
● I find friendship to be like wine, raw when
new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
- Thomas Jefferson
● Friends have all things in common.
- Plato
● Without friends no one would choose to live,
though he had all other goods.
- Artistotle
● They who dream by day are cognizant of many
things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
● There are only two kinds of people who are
really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who
know absolutely nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
● I would rather be a coward than brave because
people hurt you when you are brave.
-E. M. Forster
● Liberty without learning is always in peril;
learning without liberty is always in vain.
-John F. Kennedy
● It is through Art, and through Art only, that
we can realise our perfection.
-Oscar Wilde
● Regrets are the natural property of grey
hairs.
-Charles Dickens
● Between men and women there is no friendship
possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
● You can't wait for inspiration. You have to
go after it with a club.
-Jack London
● A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing
man is stronger than a suffering man.
-Gustave Flaubert
● All the forces in the world are not so
powerful as an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo
● When it is not in our power to follow what is
true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
-Rene Descartes
● Art consists of limitation. The most
beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-Gilbert Chesterton