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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.

by Daniel J. Boorstin"

No one should drive a hard

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.by Ludwig von Beethoven

No one who cannot rejoice

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.
by Donald Foster

The eternal mystery of

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
by Albert Einstein

There are no menial jobs

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
by William Bennett

Weakness of attitude

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
by Albert Einstein

By always thinking unto them

By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.
by Sir Issac Newton

Failure comes only when we

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
by Jawaharal Nehru

A fanatic is one who can't

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
by Winston Churchill

I do not know what I may appear to

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.
by Sir Isaac Newton

More than any other time in history

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
by Woody Allen

Those who cannot tell what

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am convinced that

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
by Albert Einstein

We must not forget that when radium was

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
by Marie Curie

Politics is no

Politics is no exact science.
by Otto von Bismark

Politics is no

Politics is no exact science.
by Otto von Bismark

A person starts to live when

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
by Albert Einstein

Men fear death as children fear

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
by Sir Francis Bacon

Eternity is a long time

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
by Woody Allen

As far as I'm concerned

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
by Albert Einstein

Choose the life that is most

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
by Sir Francis Bacon

Would you live with ease

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
by Benjamin Franklin

It seemed the world was

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
by Woody Allen

It is a secret both in nature and

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
by Sir Francis Bacon

The golden rule is that

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
by George Bernard Shaw

There is danger from all

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.by
John Adams

We must all suffer one of

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
by Jim Rohn

Think like a wise man but

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
by William Butler Yeats

The man who fears no

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
by Sir Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
by Sir Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
by Sir Francis Bacon

Keep your eyes wide open

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
by Benjamin Franklin

When one door closes, another

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
by Alexander Graham Bell

Gratitude is the fairest

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
by Henry Ward Beecher

We shall not flag or fail

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
by Winston Churchill

The million little things that drop

The million little things that drop into your hands, the small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, and goes unchanging along His silent way.
by Helen Keller

It is better to be deceived

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
by Goethe

An inexhaustible good nature

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
by Washington Irving

Genius may have its

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
by Elbert Hubbard

Employ thy time well

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
by Benjamin Franklin

If a man thinks about his

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.
by Goethe

The most beautiful thing we

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.
by Albert Einstein

Eternal nothingness is fine

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
by Woody Allen

Things alter for the worse

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
by Sir Francis Bacon

The only real valuable

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
by Albert Einstein

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a

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.
by Albert Einstein

There is no excellent beauty

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
by Sir Francis Bacon

Real strength is not just a condition of

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.
by McCallister Dodds

Real strength is not just a condition of

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.
by McCallister Dodds

Common sense is the

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
by Albert Einstein

I'd rather be a could-be if I

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
by Milton Berle

But one must know where

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
by Goethe

Reality is merely an

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
by Albert Einstein

The best way to cheer yourself

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
by Mark Twain

A wise man will make more

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
by Sir Francis Bacon

The purpose of life is not to

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a great power in words

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
by Josh Billings

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you. by Benjamin Franklin

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
by Benjamin Franklin

Friendship improves happiness

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
by Joseph Addison

Science is a wonderful thing

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
by Albert Einstein

Discipline is the bridge

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
by Jim Rohn

Most folks are about as

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
by Abraham Lincoln

Happiness cannot come from without

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
by Helen Keller

For a man to achieve all that

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
by Goethe

To bring up a child in the way

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
by Josh Billings

To laugh often and love much

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never think of the future

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
by Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
by Albert Einstein

Compassion will cure more

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
by Henry Ward Beecher

Anyone can do any amount of

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
by Robert Benchley

Character cannot be developed in ease

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
by Helen Keller

The hardest thing

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
by Albert Einstein

The greater man

The greater man the greater courtesy.
by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The society of women is

The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
by Goethe

Life is divided into

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
by Woody Allen

You can live to be a hundred if

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
by Woody Allen

There are no shortcuts to

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
by Celine Dion

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind

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.
by Albert Einstein

Anyone can do any amount of

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
by Robert Benchley

You can go a long way with a smile

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
by Al Capone

Vote

Vote early and vote often.
by Al Capone

Discussion is an exchange of

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
by Robert Quillen

I know not with what weapons World War III

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
by Albert Einstein

More than any time in history

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
by Woody Allen

Everyone has talent

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
by Erica Jong

The service you do for others

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
Mohammed Ali

Gravitation is not

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
by Albert Einstein

Equations are more important

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
by Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
by Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things

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.
by Albert Einstein

one of the strongest motives that lead

... 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.
by Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts can be counted

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
by Albert Einstein

For a man to achieve all

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
by Goethe

I said to myself, I have things

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me -shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
by Georgia O'Keeffe

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