Wisdom

Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

🌎 Author Quote
🇺🇸Aaron Swartz”There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
🇺🇸Abraham Lincoln”Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
🇺🇸Adam Smith”Whatever tends to break [the balance between supply and demand of work] tends to hurt national or public opulence; whether it be by giving extraordinary discouragement to some sorts of industry or extraordinary encouragements to others.”
🇬🇷Æsop”A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
🇵🇱Akiba Rubinstein”Who is your opponent tonight? Tonight I am playing against the Black pieces.”
🇺🇸Akos Rona-Tas”Prediction algorithms only program the extension of the past.”
🇬🇧Alan Turing”Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
🇬🇧Alan Turing"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
🇫🇷Albert Camus”The older I get, the more I find that one can but live with those beings who set you free and who love you with an affection that is as light to carry as it is strongly felt.”
🇫🇷Albert Camus”The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”
🇫🇷Albert Camus”The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
🇫🇷Albert Camus”Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect, I am not a Jew.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”A hundred times 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.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Time, in other words, he said, is an illusion.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”If you want to live a happy life, tie it to goals, not to people.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it's built for.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”The only source of knowledge is experience.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
🇺🇸Albert Einstein”If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
🇬🇧Aldous Huxley”The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
🇬🇧Aldous Huxley”That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
🇬🇧Aldous Huxley”That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions for being bothered… Indifference is a form of sloth, and sloth in its turn is one of the symptoms of loveless-ness. One isn't lazy about what one loves. The problem is: how to love?”
🇫🇷Alexander Grothendieck”Fear of mistakes and fear of the truth is one and the same thing. The person who fears being wrong is powerless to discover anything new. It's when we fear making a mistake that the error which is inside of us becomes immovable as a rock.”
🇷🇺Alexandre Soljenitsyne”Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
🇷🇺Alexandre Soljenitsyne”The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
🇫🇷Alphonse de Lamartine”There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.”
🇺🇸Alvin Toffler”The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
🇺🇸Alvin Toffler”Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.”
🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky”Birds born in cages think flying is an illness.”
🇮🇶Alhazen”Whosoever studies works of science must, if he wants to find the truth, transform himself into a critic of everything he reads.”
🇺🇸Amelia Earhart”The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
🇫🇷Anaïs Nin”I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.”
🇫🇷Anaïs Nin”Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
🇫🇷André Gide”It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
🇫🇷André Gide”People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
🇺🇸Andrew McAfee”The world is one big data problem.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”Success breeds complacency.
Complacency breeds failure.
Only the paranoid survive.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”There are two options: adapt or die.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”Bad companies are destroyed by crises;
good companies survive them;
great companies are improved by them.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”Activity is not output.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.”
🇺🇸Andy Grove”A common rule we should always try to heed is to detect and fix any problem at the lowest-value stage possible.”
🌎Anonymous (funny quote)”There's no need to repeat yourself.
I ignored you just fine the first time.”
🌎Anonymous”The wise build bridges, while the fools burn them down.”
🇨🇳An Yi (安忆)”We are all exhausting the little talent we have to express the feelings deep in our hearts.” (我们都在穷尽自己仅有的一点天赋，来表达内心深处的感受！)
🇷🇺Anton Chekhov”Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts."
🇷🇺Anton Chekhov”I may not have any notable victories, but I can surprise you with the defeats I managed to survive."
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”The supreme accomplishment is to blur the lines between work and play.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.”
🇬🇧Arnold Toynbee”We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Courage is the means between recklessness and fear. You have to control and master your fear to become resolute and stronger.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”The ignorant man affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise man reflects.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”3 levels of influence: ethos (credible/wisdom), pathos (empathy), logos (logical argument).”
🇬🇷Aristotle”Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”It is not fair to make unequal things equal.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”Tyrants, corrupt politicians surround themselves with bad men because they like to be flattered and no man of high spirit will flatter them.” (Variant: Tyrants are always in need of men who will flatter them, for they are afraid of the truth)
🇬🇷Aristotle”Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
🇬🇷Aristotle”There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”
🇬🇧Arthur C. Clarke”One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
🇬🇧Arthur C. Clarke”The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
🇬🇧Arthur C. Clarke”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
🇺🇸Arthur Burns”Anyone who is convinced that he can fine-tune the economy doesn't know what he is talking about.”
🇫🇷Arthur Rimbaud”We cannot know! - We are weighed down. With a cloak of ignorance, hemmed in by chimaeras! Men like apes, dropped from our mothers' wombs, Our feeble reason hides the infinite from us! We wish to perceive - and Doubt punishes us! Doubt, dismal bird, beat us down with its wing… - And the horizon rushes away in endless flight!…”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
🇩🇪Arthur Schopenhauer”Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
🌎Asian proverbThe Vietnamese plants the rice, the Cambodian watches it grow, the Lao listens to it grow, the Thai cuts it, the Chinese sells it.”
🇹🇷Atatürk”Complete independence means independence and freedom in every field such as politics, economics, judiciary, military, culture… Insufficiency in one of those fields means the total loss of independence of the nation.”
🇬🇧Audrey Hepburn”I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously.”
🇬🇧Audrey Hepburn”The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
🇬🇧Audrey Hepburn”Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.”
🇫🇷Auguste Comte”To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.”
🇫🇷Auguste Comte”Les morts gouvernent les vivants - Deceased people govern people alive.”
🇺🇸Ayn Rand”Your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road.”
🇺🇸Ayn Rand”Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must he free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.
🇺🇸Ayn Rand”Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work.”
🇵🇹Baruch Spinoza”If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” (alt. "You can't connect the dots looking forward. Only backwards." (Steve Jobs)
🇵🇹Baruch Spinoza”He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.”
🇵🇹Baruch Spinoza”No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”
🇵🇹Baruch Spinoza”The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”
🇵🇹Baruch Spinoza”The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
🇺🇸BB King”The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
🇫🇷Bernard Pivot”The scapegoat is the only animal that certainly won't disappear in our lifetimes.”
🇬🇧Benjamin Disraeli”The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
🇬🇧Benjamin Franklin”Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
🇬🇧Benjamin Franklin”Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
🇬🇧Benjamin Franklin”Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
🇬🇧Benjamin Franklin”There are three extremely hard things in this world: steel, diamonds and knowing yourself.”
🇬🇧Bertrand Russell”The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
🇬🇧Bertrand Russell”One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.”
🇬🇧Bertrand Russell”The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
🇬🇧Bertrand Russell”In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
🇬🇧Bertrand Russell”Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
🇬🇧Bertrand Russell”The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
🇺🇸Bill Bryson”Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”
🇬🇧Bill Hartston”Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”It is impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole and likewise to know the whole without knowing the parts.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
🇫🇷Blaise Pascal”In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller”Simple principles cannot be found from either a life that is too easy or a mind that is too complex (do more with less).”
🌎Anonymous (Business quote)”Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard.”
🇳🇵Buddha”Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: is it true? it it necessary? is it kind?”
🇩🇪Carl Freidrich Gauss”Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.”
🇩🇪Carl Freidrich Gauss”It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
🇨🇭Carl JungWe don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Where your fear is, there your task is.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.”
🇨🇭Carl Jung”Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you.”
🇺🇸Carl Sagan”The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.”
🇺🇸Carl Sagan”The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.”
🇺🇸Carl Sagan”Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.”
🇺🇸Carl Sagan”Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
🇺🇸Carl Sagan”We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
🇪🇸Carlos Ruiz Zafón”Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
🇺🇸Catherine Cook”If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.”
🇫🇷Charlemagne”To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
🇺🇸Charles Bukowski”People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
🇺🇸Charles Bukowski”Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.”
🇺🇸Charles Evans Hughes”When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege of being free.”
🇫🇷Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord”Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know.”
🇺🇸Charlie Munger”You look at Carnegie and Franklin, they had few years of primary school, they learned everything by themselves by reading. Whatever they needed, they learned. It's not that hard.”
🇺🇸Charlie Munger”In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time.”
🇺🇸Charlie Munger”I consistently see people rise in life who not the smartest, sometimes not even the most delivery, but they are learning machines.”
🇺🇸Charlie Munger”It's so simple. You spend less than you earn. Invest shrewdly. Avoid toxic people and toxic activities. Try to keep learning all your life. And do a lot of deferred gratification. If you do all of those things, you are almost certain to succeed. And if you don't, you're going to need a lot of luck. And you don't want to need a lot of luck. You want to go into a game where you're very likely to win without having any unusual luck.”
🇨🇳Chinese proverb”To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.”
🇨🇳Chinese proverb”Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
🇺🇸Christopher Hitchens”The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
🇫🇷Claude Lévi-Strauss”Science isn't about knowing all the answers, it’s about asking the right questions.”
🇫🇷Coco Chanel”The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
🇫🇷Coco Chanel”I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”
🇫🇷Coco Chanel”In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
🇫🇷Coco Chanel”Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
🇨🇳Confucius”Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
🇨🇳Confucius”In a well-governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a poorly governed country, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”
🇨🇳Confucius”It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
🇨🇳Confucius”Therefore, the superior man cultivates a friendly harmony, without being weak. — How firm is he in his energy! He stands erect in the middle, without inclining to either side. — How firm is he in his energy!”
🇨🇳Confucius”If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
🇨🇳Confucius”Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
🇨🇳Confucius”When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
🇨🇳Confucius”Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
🇨🇳Confucius”Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.”
🇨🇳Confucius”Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
🇺🇸Dale Carnegie”Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.”
🇨🇳Dalai Lama”Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.”
🇺🇸Dale Carnegie”Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
🇺🇸Dave Grohl”No one is you and that is your biggest power.”
🇺🇸David Einstein”Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
🇺🇸David Bohm”The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
🇬🇧David Ogilvy”Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.”
🇺🇸Denzel Washington”Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.”
🇹🇭Dhammananda Bhikkhuni”เราต้องบำรุงศักยภาพของเราเพื่อที่เราจะได้หลุดพ้นจากความทุกข์ ซึ่งเกิดจากการยึดติดของคุณเอง - Rao tông bamrung sàkàphâp khǒng rao phʉ̂a thî rao châ dâi lùtphon jàk khwâm thùk sʉ̀eng kôet jàk kân yʉ́t tìt khǒng khun eeng - We have to nurture our potentiality so that we can be free from suffering, which is caused by your own clinging.”
🇺🇸Donald Dewey”Unless it can be shown that cartels create entry barriers that would not otherwise exist, they are entitled to the same presumption of welfare creation as any other type of private contract.”
🇫🇷Edgar Morin”The problem is not that you were not educated. The problem is that you were educated just enough to believe what you were taught, but not enough to question everything you were told.”
🇫🇷Edmond de Goncourt"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
🇬🇧Edmund Burke"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
🇺🇸Edwards Deming”A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
🇺🇸Edward R. Murrow”A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
🇺🇸Edward Snowden”People don't realize how hard it is to speak the truth, to a world full of people that don't realize they're living a lie.”
🇹🇷Elif Shafak”Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
🇺🇸Elon Musk”Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
🇺🇸Elon Musk”Failure is irrelevant unless it is catastrophic.”
🇺🇸Elon Musk”If you do something like read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people, you can learn almost anything.”
🇩🇪Emanuel Lasker”In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.”
🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway”A man of character may be defeated, but never destroyed.”
🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway”It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.”
🇦🇹Erwin Schrödinger”The entire world is interconnected, and there is only one unified reality. The idea of separation is an illusion.”
🇦🇹Erwin Schrödinger”The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day.”
🇨🇦Eugène Cloutier”There is always the sweat of the poor in the money of the rich.”
🇺🇸Eleanor Roosevelt”Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
🇺🇸Eleanor Roosevelt”The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
🇺🇸Eleanor Roosevelt”Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
🇺🇸Eleanor Roosevelt”The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
🇺🇸Elon Musk”Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”It is by the book, and not by the sword, that humanity will conquer lies and injustice.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”No happiness is possible in ignorance, certainty alone makes life calm.”
🇫🇷Emile ZolaWe are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content (Nobody understands an author; not even he himself).”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”Nothing is ever over, it takes a little happiness for it all to start again”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”Civilization will not attain perfection, until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”Nothing develops intelligence like travel.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
🇫🇷Emile Zola”If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
🇮🇹Enrico Fermi”There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.”
🇬🇷Epictetus”An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”
🇬🇷 ”When the debate is lost, insults become the loser's tool.”
🌎EquationsHappiness = reality minus expectations.
Performance = potential minus interference.”
🇫🇷Étienne de La Boétie”Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.”
🌎Etiquette of the Banker 1775”First rule of business, protect your investment.”
🌎Financial quote”The stock market is easy to understand: you just need to know if there are more idiots than money or more money than idiots.”
🇫🇷François Cheng”Infinity is nothing other than the back and forth between what is offered and what is sought.”
🇺🇸Frank Herbert”The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”The democratic statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted with the alternative of either assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”The belief that processes which are consciously directed are necessarily superior to any spontaneous process is an unfounded superstition.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”If old truths are to retain their hold on men’s minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of new generations. What at one time are their most effective expressions gradually become so worn with use that they cease to carry a definite meaning.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”Striving to control society… destroys the civilization that grows from the free efforts of millions.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”Freedom under the law implies economic freedom, while economic control, as the control of the means for all purposes, makes a restriction of all freedom possible.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”If an individual’s income is politically determined, he loses not merely the incentive but also the possibility of deciding what he ought to do in the general interest.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”From time to time it is probably necessary to detach oneself from the technicalities of the argument and to ask quite naively what it is all about.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.”
🇦🇹F. A. Hayek”The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
🇫🇷François Mauriac”I have no desire to play in a world where everyone cheats.”
🇫🇷François de La Rochefoucauld”Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
🇫🇷François de La Rochefoucauld”The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”
🇺🇸Fred Kofman”Bear in mind wisdom without compassion is ruthlessness, compassion without wisdom is folly.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat”When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat”My view is that in the destruction of an error the truth is created.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat”When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat”Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Bastiat”A people has two ways of procuring something. The first is to make it; the second is to make something else and trade it. It is certainly better to have the option than not to have it. Let us therefore demand the freedom to trade.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Lenoir”Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.”
🇫🇷Frédéric Lenoir”True wisdom lies in understanding that the universe, life, and everything that exists are beyond our complete comprehension”
🇬🇧Freeman Dyson”A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
🇩🇪Friedrich Nietzsche”My solitude does not depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
🇩🇪Friedrich Nietzsche”You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
🇺🇸F. Scott Fitzgerald”You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.”
🇷🇺Fyodor Dostoevsky”Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.”
🇷🇺Fyodor Dostoevsky”Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.”
🇷🇺Fyodor Dostoevsky”It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
🇷🇺Fyodor Dostoevsky”The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.”
🇮🇹Galileo Galilei”In question of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
🇮🇹Galileo Galilei”Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.”
🇺🇸G. Michael Hopf”Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
🇺🇸Gary Keller”There is no failure. You either win or you learn.”
🇦🇿Garry Kasparov”To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.”
🇦🇿Garry Kasparov”Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance.”
🇦🇿Garry Kasparov”When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbours. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.” (to avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game)
🇦🇿Garry Kasparov”By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw”He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
🇺🇸George CarlinPolitical correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.”
🇬🇧George Herbert”Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
🇬🇧George Orwell”The essence of being rich is not having to care.”
🇬🇧George Orwell”The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
🇬🇧George Orwell”If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
🇬🇧George R.R. Martin”A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”World history is a court of judgment.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.”
🇩🇪Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel”Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”
🇪🇸George Santayana”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
🇭🇺G. H. Brassaï”We sometimes wonder if life makes sense… And then we meet people who give meaning to life.”
🇮🇹Giorgio Armani”Elegance is not about being noticed, it’s about being remembered.”
🇮🇹Giuseppe Verdi”You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”
🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton”We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.”
🇮🇱Golda Meir”We want to live. Our neighbors want us dead, It leaves not much room for compromise.”
🇮🇱Golda Meir”You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
🇺🇸Gregory Benford”Engineers never liked the unexplained, whereas physicists lived for it.”
🇺🇸Groucho Marx”Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
🇺🇸Groucho Marx”I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
🇺🇸Harold Bloom”Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
🇯🇵Haruki Murakami”And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
🇯🇵Haruki Murakami”If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
🇯🇵Haruki Murakami”Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”
🇯🇵Haruki Murakami”Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.”
🇮🇱Ecclesiastes”For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.”
🇮🇱Hebrew proverb”All good things come to an end. Lekhol dibèr tov yèch sof. לכל דבר טוב יש סוף.” (but ”All's well that ends well” by 🇬🇧 William Shakespeare)
🇮🇱Hebrew proverb”There is nothing new under the sun. Ein chadash tachat ha'shemesh. אין חדש תחת השמש.”
🇮🇱Hebrew proverb”In a place where there are no people, strive to be a person. B'makom she'ein anashim, hishtadel l'hiyot ish. במקום שאין אנשים, השתדל להיות איש.”
🇮🇱Hebrew proverb”Make for yourself a teacher and acquire for yourself a friend. Aseh lecha rav u'kneh lecha chaver. עשה לך רב וקנה לך ..חבר.”
🇮🇱Hebrew proverb”Nothing stands in the way of will. Ein davar ha'omed bifnei haratzon. אין דבר העומד בפני הרצון.”
🇫🇷Henri Poincaré”The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living.”
🇫🇷Henri Poincaré”It is only through science and art that civilization is of value.”
🇫🇷Henri Queuille”Politics is not about solving problems, but about silencing those who raise them.”
🇺🇸Henry Ford”Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
🇺🇸Henry Ford”When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
🇺🇸Henry Ford”Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
🇫🇷Hervé Bazin”The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
🇺🇸H. L. Mencken”Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”
🇫🇷Honoré de Balzac”History is of two kinds — there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini 🐬; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events — a scandalous chronicle…”
🇺🇸Howard Ahmanson Jr”Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying this God he is worshipping.”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”The present moment is like the bow of a ship which rushes into the ocean of time and transforms the uncertain future into a present which soon becomes an immutable past. This past contains everything I know about history. All I know about time is that I am in time.”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”Modern science is an admirable monument which does honor to the human species and which compensates (a little) for the immensity of its warlike stupidity.”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”Beauty is born from the human gaze. But man's gaze is born from nature.”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”It's not about fleeing reality, but about living it with passion. The awakening of jubilation is, I believe, the most effective antidote against absurdity of all degrees.”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”One of the greatest scientific discoveries is that the universe has a history. Since Aristotle, people have thought of the universe as eternal and static, existing forever and repeating indefinitely. But since the beginning of the 20th century, we have known that the universe has not always existed, that it has an age and is evolving.”
🇨🇦Hubert Reeves”On an astronomical scale, light progresses at a snail's pace. The news she brings us is no longer fresh at all!”
🇫🇷Hugh of Saint Victor”He is happy for whom his homeland is sweet. Courageous, he for whom all soil is a homeland. Perfect, the one for whom the whole world is an exile.”
🇺🇸Ian Bremmer”None of us will change the world this week. But each of us has a chance to use whatever talent and wisdom we have to work with other people to build a more cooperative future.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.”
🇦🇫Idris Shah”To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.”
🇵🇰Imran Khan”Faith without wisdom and knowledge could produce bigots completely lacking in compassion and tolerance.”
🇵🇰Imran Khan”Truth is the power that will resolve our problems.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
🇺🇸Isaac Asimov”So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.”
🇺🇸Israel Albert Horowitz”One bad move nullifies forty good ones.”
🇷🇺Ivan Pavlov”If you want a new idea, read an old book.”
🇨🇳Jack Ma”If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome.”
🇺🇸Jade Bonacolta”The Rule of 100: If you spend 100 hours a year in any discipline (which is only 18 mins a day), you'll be better than 95% of the world in that discipline. Consistency is everything.”
🇺🇸J. Robert Oppenheimer”It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
🇺🇸J. Robert Oppenheimer”There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry… There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.”
🇺🇸J. Robert Oppenheimer”There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.”
🇺🇸James Dean”Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
🇵🇦Jasmina Alexander”Say what you think, do what you say, think what you do, turn the page, put your other cheek and keep walking… Only this way you will leave traces!”
🇫🇷Jean d'Ormesson”I fully support gay marriage, but only between left-wing politicians. Anything that helps prevent their reproduction is a benefit to all!”
🇫🇷Jean-François Revel”A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”
🇹🇼Jensen Huang”The enemy of continuous progress and growth is arrogance, zero sum mindset and sense of entitlement.”
🇹🇼Jensen Huang”Resilience matters in success. And greatness does not come from intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn’t formed out of smart people: it's formed out of people who have suffered.”
🇺🇸Jim Rohn"The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read."
🇨🇭Johann Bernoulli”The solution "cost me study that robbed me of rest for an entire night.”
🇨🇭Johann Bernoulli”A quantity which is increased or decreased by an infinitely small quantity is neither increased nor decreased.”
🇩🇪Johannes Kepler”I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
🇬🇧John Frederick William Herschel”Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”Strength is the ability to voluntarily confront the unknown.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”Only through discipline can you achieve true freedom.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”When the wrong principle is established as supreme—when a false king is set upon the throne or an impious ethos prevails—the people quickly find themselves deprived of the water of life…a kingdom oriented around the wrong pole—that worships the wrong gods, so to speak—suffers psychologically or spiritually.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”Weak and miserable as you are, you can still stand up.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”Without the capability for mayhem, you’re a potential victim to anyone who is capable of mayhem.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”Chaos is the birthplace of order.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.”
🇨🇦Jordan B Peterson”Strength is the ability to voluntarily confront the unknown.”
🌎Anonymous”In England, everything is permitted except what is forbidden. In Germany, everything is forbidden except what is permitted. In France, everything is allowed, even what is prohibited. In the USSR, everything is prohibited, even what is permitted.”
🌎Anonymous”Heaven is where: the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where: the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organized by the Italian.”
🇯🇵Anonymous (Japanese quote)”なんくるないさ (Nankurunaisa) - In the end, everything will work out.”
🇯🇵Anonymous (Japanese quote)すべてを失っているように感じる場合は、毎年木が葉を失うことを忘れないでください。それでも木はまだ背が高く立っています、より良い日が来るのを待ちます。- If you feel like you're losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.”
🇫🇷Jean Baudrillard”We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
🇫🇷Jean Baudrillard”History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.”
🇫🇷Jean Baudrillard”Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
🇫🇷Jean Baudrillard”Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.”
🇫🇷Jeanne d'ArcPuis vint cette voix,
Environ l’heure de midi,
Au temps de l’été,
Dans le jardin de mon père.”
🇫🇷Jean d'Ormesson”Il n’y avait rien. Et ce rien c’était le tout. Le tout et le rien se mêlaient l’un à l’autre et se confondaient l’un avec l’autre. […] Pour donner une idée de ce rien qui était le tout, il faudrait une nuit obscure. Un silence complet. Un vide absolu. […] Avant le monde et son train, il n’y avait pas d’espace et il n’y avait pas de temps. […] L’éternité se confondait avec le tout et avec le rien.”
🇺🇸Jeff Bezos”If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.”
🇺🇸Jeff Bezos”Complaining is not a strategy. We all have time to complain, but most of us have no time to achieve and execute.”
🇺🇸Jim Rohn”Successful people have libraries. The rest have big-screen TVs.”
🇮🇳Jiddu Krishnamurti”The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
🇪🇸John of the Cross”He who really ascends so high annihilates himself, and all his previous knowledge seems ever less and less; his knowledge so increases that he knoweth nothing, all science transcending.”
🇪🇸John of the Cross”One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it.”
🇺🇸John D. Rockefeller”The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
🇺🇸John F. Kennedy”An intelligent man is one who knows how to be smart enough to hire people smarter than him.”
🇺🇸John Underwood”Your friends are close, but your enemy is closer.”
🇺🇸John Underwood”The only real enemy to have ever existed, is an eternal one.”
🇺🇸John Archibald Wheeler”General Relativity: Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.”
🇺🇸John Archibald Wheeler”The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.”
🇩🇪Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
🇩🇪Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”Everything is hard before it is easy.”
🇩🇪Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”The eternal feminine draws us on high.”
🇨🇦Jordan Peterson”The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
🇨🇺José Raúl Capablanca”You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”
🇺🇸Josh Billings”Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
🇦🇺Julian Assange”There is no society anymore. What there is, is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world using your tax money (2011).”
🇮🇹Julius Caesar”The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”
🇦🇹Karl Popper”The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”
🇱🇧Khalil Gibran”Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”
🇰🇭Khmer proverb”កុំឲ្យខ្លួនអ្នកចាញ់ បើអ្នកមិនសាកល្បង។ - Kom aoy khluon neak chan, ber neak min sak labong. - Do not let yourself fail if you have not tried.”
🇰🇭Khmer proverb”អ្នកចេះមិនមែនជានរណាមិនដែលបរាជ័យ។ - Neak cheh min men chea norna min dael borachey. - The knowledgeable one is not the one who never fails.”
🇰🇭Khmer proverb”ពេលមានត្រូវដឹងថាវាមានកាលលែង។ - Pel mean trov deng tha vea mean kal leng. - When you have it, know that there is a time to let go.”
🇰🇭Khmer proverb”កុំឲ្យខ្លួនអ្នកស្ថិតនៅតែប៉ុន្មានគោលដៅ។ - Kom aoy khluon neak sthet nov tae ponman koaldov. - Do not let yourself be limited to only a few goals.”
🇦🇹Kurt Gödel”There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived.”
🇺🇸Kurt Vonnegut”Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
🇺🇸Lana Turner”A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
🇱🇦Lao proverb”ດັງກວ່າລຳບາກກໍ່ຕໍ່ຄືນ.- Dang kua lambak ko to kuen. - Struggle more to return to peace.”
🇱🇦Lao proverb”ຄົນເກັ່ງບໍ່ທ່າມືໄວ.- Khon keng bo tha mue vai. - A capable person does not show off.”
🇺🇸Larry Ellison”If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really get ahead is to be different.”
🇺🇸Larry Page”To do something different, you need a healthy disregard for the impossible.”
🇺🇸Laurie Halse Anderson”Censorship is the child of fear, the father of ignorance and the weapon of tyrants.”
🇮🇹Anonymous (Latin quote)”Veritas vos liberabit” - The truth will set you free.”
🇮🇹Anonymous (Latin quote)”Nihil est sine ratione” - There is nothing without a reason.”
🇮🇹Anonymous (Latin quote)”Integros accedere fontes” - To seek out the original sources.”
🇮🇹Anonymous (Latin quote)”Omnia nodis arcanis connexa quiescunt” - All things rest connected by hidden knots.”
🇨🇦Leland Val Van De Wall”The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
🇨🇦Leonard Cohen”There is a crack in everything, that’s where the light gets in.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
🇷🇺Leo Tolstoy”We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”Talent is doing what others find difficult
Genius is doing easily what others find impossible.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods. For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459… by the letter e.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.”
🇨🇭Leonhard EulerNotable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - … whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. … Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.”
🇨🇭Leonhard Euler”Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”
🇮🇹Leonardo da Vinci”Learning never exhausts the mind.”
🇮🇹Leonardo da Vinci"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself; you will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself; the height of your success is gauged by your self-mastery, the depth of your failure by your self-abandonment. Those who cannot establish dominion over themselves will have no dominion over others."
🇮🇹Leonardo da Vinci”The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
🇮🇹Leonardo da Vinci”The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
🇮🇹Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci”Therefore strictly embracing the Indian method, and adding some of my own ideas, and more still from Euclid’s geometry, I assembled them in this book as understandably as I could.”
🇨🇳Liji / The Book of Rites”万物并育而不相害，道并行而不相悖。（《礼记·中庸》）The things of the world develop without rivalry, and the four seasons alternate without contradiction.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Software is like sex, it's better when it's free.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”
🇫🇮Linus Torvalds”Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.”
🇺🇸Lionel Shriver”In a world where central banks actively court inflation, money rots.”
🇬🇧Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton)”Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
🇬🇧Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton)”Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
🇮🇳Lord Krishna”Failure is when you accept it, otherwise, it's just another obstacle.”
🇫🇷Louis Pasteur”Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
🇮🇹Lucius Annaeus Seneca”Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
🇦🇹Ludwig von Mises”A statesman who antagonizes public opinion is doomed to fail.”
🇦🇹Ludwig von Mises”Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator.”
🇦🇹Ludwig von Mises”The governments are not interested in eliminating monopolies; rather, they try to create conditions to enable producers to force monopoly prices on the market.”
🇺🇸Marc Benioff”The only constant in the technology industry is change.”
🇺🇸Marc Benioff”The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”
🇺🇸Marc Benioff”The future of tech must be rooted in integrity. It’s not just about advancing technology; it’s about advancing humanity. Our innovations must reflect our values, ensuring that progress is driven by ethics, not just by profit.”
🇵🇱Martin Gray”I have understood that there are men, perhaps most men, for whom there is no worse torment than the truth.”
🇳🇴Magnus Carlsen”Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”If people ignore you, it does not mean that they are going to laugh at you. If people laugh at you, it does not mean that they are going to fight with you. If people fight with you, it does not mean that you are going to win.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your behavior. Your behavior becomes your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”The machine has won the battle against man, but in the process, man has become a machine. He functions but no longer lives.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”Be the change that you wish to see in the world (similar to "Be as you wish to seem" by Socrates).”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind).”
🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi”The greatest traveler is not the one who has circled the world ten times, but the one who has circled himself once.”
🇺🇸Marc Andreesen”In a start-up, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.”
🇫🇷Marcel Proust”The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
🇫🇷Marcel Proust”Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
🇫🇷Marcel Proust”The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
🇫🇷Marcel Proust”That abominable and voluptuous act called reading the newspaper, through which all the misfortunes and cataclysms of the universe (…) are excellently associated with the recommended ingestion of a few sips of coffee with milk.”
🇮🇹Marcus Aurelius”No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
🇮🇹Marcus Aurelius”An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”
🇮🇹Marcus Aurelius”You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.”
🇮🇹Marcus Aurelius”Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn't from outside me but in my own assumptions.”
🇳🇴Margaret Thatcher”The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
🇧🇪Marguerite Yourcenar”The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself.”
🇧🇪Marguerite Yourcenar”Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
🇧🇪Marguerite Yourcenar”The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.”
🇧🇪Marguerite Yourcenar”A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.”
🇧🇪Marguerite Yourcenar”All happiness is a form of innocence.”
🇧🇪Marguerite Yourcenar”We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.”
🇵🇱Marie Skłodowska-Curie”Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
🇵🇱Marie Skłodowska-Curie”Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
🇵🇱Marie Skłodowska-Curie”There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
🇵🇱Marie Skłodowska-Curie”I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
🇵🇱Marie Skłodowska-Curie”You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience, this is the ideal life.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
🇺🇸Mark Twain”Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
🇺🇸Martin Luther King”Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
🇺🇸Matt Ridley”There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer.”
🇩🇪Max Planck”Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
🇩🇪Max Planck”I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.”
🇩🇪Max Planck”Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”
🇫🇷Maximilien Robespierre”The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
🇺🇸Maya Angelou”I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
🇺🇸Maya Angelou”You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
🇺🇸Maya Angelou”There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
🇺🇸Maya Angelou”Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
🇺🇸Michael Bassey Johnson”If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
🇬🇧Michael Faraday”Without experiment I am nothing.”
🇬🇧Michael Foot”Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.”
🇫🇷Michel Crozier”A bureaucratic organization is an organization that cannot correct its behavior by learning from its errors.”
🇫🇷Michel de Montaigne”I ordinarily answer such as ask me the reason of my travels, that I know very well what I fly from, but not what I seek.”
🇫🇷Michel Serres”Cogito: my thinking is distinguished from knowledge, and from the various processes of understanding— memory, imagination, deductive reason, discernment, geometry— that have been externalized, along with synapses and neurons, in the computer.”
🇮🇹Michelangelo”The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
🇮🇹Michelangelo”I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
🇮🇹Michelangelo”Genius is eternal patience.”
🇮🇹Michelangelo”I'm still learning.” (age 87)
🇺🇸Milton Friedman”Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.”
🇺🇸Milton Friedman”The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
🇺🇸Milton Friedman”Preservation of freedom requires either the elimination of power where that is possible, or its dispersal where it cannot be eliminated.”
🇺🇸Milton Friedman”Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
🇲🇳Mongolian proverb”УСЫГ НЬ УУВАЛ ЁСЫГ НЬ ДАГА - If you drink the water, follow the custom" (equivalent to the Italian quote "When in Rome, do as the Roman do")
🇫🇷Montesquieu”The natural effect of commerce is to lead to peace.”
🇮🇳Mother Teresa”If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
🇺🇸Murray Rothbard”The state is a band of thieves, composed of the most immoral, greedy, and unscrupulous individuals in every society.”
🇫🇷Napoleon Bonaparte”The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”
🇫🇷Napoleon Bonaparte”War is 90% information.”
🇺🇸Napoleon Hill”Every person who wins in any undertaking must be wiling to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining the state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.”
🇺🇸Napoleon Hill”If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
🇺🇸Napoleon Hill”Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
🇮🇳Navalism”Evolution works by mutation and selection. Innovation works by trial and error. Science works by conjecture and criticism. Free markets work by entrepreneurship and risk. All truth-seeking systems work roughly the same way.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”When you fought so hard to get back on your feet… Never go back to those who put you down.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”I never lose. I either win or learn.”
🇿🇦Nelson Mandela”It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
🇩🇰Niels Bohr”The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
🇩🇰Niels Bohr”We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.”
🇩🇰Niels Bohr”An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes.”
🇩🇰Niels Bohr”If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.”
🇮🇹Niccolò Machiavelli”There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
🇮🇹Niccolò Machiavelli”Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
🇮🇹Niccolò Machiavelli”The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
🇮🇹Niccolò Machiavelli”Politics have no relation to morals.”
🇷🇸Nicola Tesla”Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”
🇷🇸Nicola Tesla”But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.”
🇷🇸Nicola Tesla”Last message to his mother: All these years that I had spent in the service of mankind brought me nothing but insults and humiliation.”
🇷🇸Nicola Tesla”Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.”
🇷🇸Nicola Tesla”Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
🇮🇪Oscar Wilde”Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
🇮🇪Oscar Wilde”I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to ridicule yourself.”
🇮🇪Oscar Wilde”Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
🇮🇪Oscar Wilde”To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.”
🇮🇪Oscar Wilde”Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”
🇮🇳Paramahansa Yogananda”Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
🇺🇸Paul Begala”Politics is show business for ugly people.”
🇧🇷Paulo Coelho”Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
🇧🇷Paulo Coelho”Maybe the journey isn't about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
🇧🇷Paulo Coelho”Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.”
🇬🇧Paul Dirac”The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”
🇬🇧Paul Dirac”There is a deep connection between mathematics and theoretical physics, highlighting how mathematical beauty often guides the discovery of new physical laws.”
🇮🇷Persian proverb”به عمل کار برآید به سخندانی نیست. - Be amal kār barāyad be sokhandāni nist - Work is accomplished through action, not through speaking.”
🇮🇷Persian proverb”نابرده رنج گنج میسر نمی‌شود. - Nāborde ranj ganj mayassar nemishavad - Without effort, treasure will not be achieved.”
🇬🇷Phædrus”An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”
🇬🇷Phædrus”Even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know.”
🇬🇷ΦΒΚ”Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης (Philosophia Biou Kybernētēs which means Love of learning [lit. wisdom] is the guide [lit. helmsman] of life).”
🇫🇷Pierre-Simon Laplace”The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus.”
🇺🇸Pietra Rivoli”Central planners will produce the wrong goods, use the wrong inputs, set the wrong prices, hire the wrong people, and ultimately produce shoddy products, and not enough of them anyway.”
🇬🇷Plato”No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
🇬🇷Plato”Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
🇬🇷Plato”One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
🇬🇷Plato”Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
🇮🇹Thomas Aquinas”Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.” (Peripatetic axiom)
🇫🇷Pierre Dac”He who in life started from zero and achieved nothing in existence has no one to thank.”
🇫🇷Pierre Desproges”You can laugh of everything, but not with everybody.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”Home is where the heart is.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”Nothing is so unequal as equality.”
🇮🇹Pliny the Elder”True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.”
🌎Principles of chess 1883”Become stronger by facing stronger than you.”
🌎Principles of chess”The more complex the game, the more complex the opponent.”
🌎Principles of chess”One bad move nullifies forty good ones.”
🌎Principles of chess”Life is a game of chess. You can't undo the moves. But you can make the next step better.”
🇮🇹Publilius Syrus”From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
🇮🇹Pythagoras”The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”
🌎The Quantum field”An invisible field of energy and information that exist beyond space and time. Nothing physical or material exist there. It's beyond anything you can perceive with your senses. This unified field of energy and information is what governs all the laws of nature.”
🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson”To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson”Always do what you are afraid to do.”
🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson”Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson”The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
🇧🇪Raymond Devos”We often take ourselves for someone, when deep down, we are several.”
🇺🇸Ray Dalio”If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not defensive, you are not going to keep money.”
🇫🇷René Descartes”In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.”
🇫🇷René Girard”When we judge, we are always in a psychic space which is circular. If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing. Having a scapegoat means not knowing that we have one. It remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.”
🇫🇷René Girard”The crowd tends toward persecution since the natural causes of what troubles it and transforms it into a turba cannot interest it. The crowd by definition seeks action but cannot affect natural causes. It therefore looks for an accessible cause that will appease its appetite for violence. Those who make up the crowd are always potential persecutors, or they dream of purging the community of the impure elements that corrupt it, the traitors who undermine it.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”I'm not going to simplify it, I'm going to tell you what it really is like, and I hope you accept nature as she is - Absurd. You don't like it? Go find another Universe!”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”Science begins with admitting how much you don’t know.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.”
🇺🇸Richard P. Feynman”You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.”
🇬🇧Rick Rubin”Failure is the information you need to get where you're going.”
🇬🇧Ricky Gervais”Religion's greatest trick wasn't convincing some people that there was a god who was all powerful. It was convincing everyone else that you couldn't ridicule the idea.”
🇬🇧Ricky Gervais”If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts.”
🇬🇧Ricky Gervais”There have been nearly 3000 Gods so far but only yours actually exists. The others are silly made up nonsense. But not yours. Yours is real.”
🇺🇸Robert A. Heinlein”A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
🇺🇸Robert B. Seidensticker”Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.” (Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change, 2009)
🇺🇸Robert Baden-Powell”The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”
🇺🇸Robert Frost”A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr”The CIA is a puppet for the military-industrial complex. Its function is to provide a steady pipeline of perpetual wars.”
🇩🇪Robert Hübner”Those who say they understand chess understand nothing.”
🇺🇸Robert Kiyosaki”Rich Dad's words of wisdom: Money is a tool… not the goal. Freedom is the goal.”
🇺🇸Robert Louis Stevenson”To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
🇺🇸Robert Quillen”Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”
🇨🇦Robin Sharna”Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
🇦🇫Rūmī”Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
🇦🇫Rūmī”You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
🇦🇫Rūmī”You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
🇦🇫Rūmī”There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
🇦🇫Rūmī”What you seek is seeking you.”
🇦🇫Rūmī”Let silence take you to the core of life.”
🇦🇫Rūmī”Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
🇮🇷Saadi Shirazi”Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
🇺🇸Russell Kirk”Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
🇺🇸Scott G. Mc Nealy”In a world without fences, who needs Gates?”
🇷🇺Sergueï Prokofiev”My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.”
🇫🇷Serge Gainsbourg”I know my limits. That's why I go beyond them.”
🇺🇸Shane Parrish”Skim a lot of books. Read a few. Immediately re-read the best ones twice.”
🇩🇪Siegbert Tarrasch”I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess.”
🇩🇪Siegbert Tarrasch”Weak points or holes in the enemy position must be occupied by pieces, not pawns.”
🇩🇪Sigmund Freud”Religious doctrines — are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
🇬🇧Simon Williams”The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board.”
🇬🇷Socrates”The unexamined life is not worth living.”
🇬🇷Socrates”The speaker who knows nothing about it will convince better than the connoisseur, if he is aimed at people who know no more than he does.”
🇬🇷Socrates”The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
🇬🇷Socrates”I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
🇬🇷Socrates”To find yourself, think for yourself.”
🇬🇷Socrates”Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
🇬🇷Socrates”There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
🇩🇰Søren Kierkegaard”Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
🇬🇧Sophie Carr”Over time you will get the wrong answer more times than you get the right answer. That’s not a problem! You’ve learnt what doesn’t work, just try again.”
🇮🇹Sophia Loren”Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
⛪Saint Augustine of Hippo”The dead are invisible, not absent.”
⛪Saint Augustine of Hippo”The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
🇫🇷Simone de Beauvoir”All success cloaks a surrender.”
🇫🇷Simone de Beauvoir”The secret of happiness and the very height of artistic achievement is to be like everybody else, yet to be like no one on earth.”
🇫🇷Simone Veil”Mistakes are not to be regretted, they are assumed. Fear is not fleeing, it is overcome. Love doesn't scream, it proves itself.”
🇫🇷Simone Weil”Science is a monopoly, not because public education is badly organized, but by its very nature; non-scientists have access only to the results, not to the methods, that is to say they can only believe, not assimilate.”
🇬🇧Stephen Hawking”People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
🇬🇧Stephen Hawking”Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
🇬🇧Stephen Hawking”However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there's life, there's hope.”
🇨🇳Sun Tzu”An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
🇮🇹Tacite”A bad peace is even worse than war.”
🇮🇹Tacite”The most corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
🇨🇳Taoist ethic 道教”Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.”
🇹🇭Anonymous (Thai quote)”ไก่จิกเด็กตายบนปากโอ่ง - Gai jìk dèik dtai bon bpàak oòng - when the roosters gossip, the children die over the water jar.”
🇹🇭Jatupol Chomphunit”ถ้าคุณไม่อาจควบคุมอารมณ์ที่เกิดขึ้นมา อารมณ์จะพิพากษาชีวิตคุณ - thâa-khun-mâi-àat-khûuap-khum-aa-rom-thîi-gòoet-khûen-maa aa-rom-jà-phí-phâak-sǎa-chii-vít-khun - If you cannot control your emotions, they will judge your life."
🇹🇭Su Boonliang”ทางไปสู่ความลำบากนั้น…ไปสบาย ทางไปสู่ความสบายนั้น…ไปลำบาก - thaang-bpai-sùu-khwaam-lam-bàak-nán-bpai-sà-bàai thaang-bpai-sùu-khwaam-sà-baai-nán-lam-bàak - The road to hardship is comfort but the road to comfort is hard."
🇹🇭Win Liaowarin”การหาความมั่นคงในชีวิต ก็เหมือนคาดหวังว่าดวงอาทิตย์จะอยู่บนฟ้าตลอดเวลา - gaan-hǎa-khwaam-mân-khong-nai-chii-vít gâaw-mǔuean-khâat-wǎng-wâa-duuang-aa-thít-jà-yùu-bon-fáa-dtà-làawt-wee-laa - To find stability in life is like expecting the sun to always be in the sky."
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thomas Dewar”Minds are like Parachutes. They work best when open.”
🇺🇸Thomas Edison”I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
🇺🇸Thomas Edison”Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.”
🇺🇸Thomas Edison”It’s obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.”
🇺🇸Thomas J. Watson”Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.”
🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson”I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson”Never spend your money before you have it.”
🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson”Government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
🇺🇸Thomas Paine”Governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”Politics is the art of finding clever reasons for doing dumb things.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”Envy plus rhetoric equals ‘social justice.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue to flourish among ever wider circles of people.”
🇺🇸Thomas Sowell”Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
🇩🇪Thus Spoke Zarathustra”I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
🇩🇪Thus Spoke Zarathustra”The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
🇩🇪Thus Spoke Zarathustra”The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
🌎Travel quote”Travel is the best education anyone can have.”
🇺🇸Truman Capote”Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
🇺🇸T. S. Eliot”To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing that is enough for one man's life.”
🇺🇸T. S. Eliot”Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
🇺🇸T. S. Eliot”We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
🇺🇸T. S. Eliot”Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
🇺🇸T. S. Eliot”Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
🇹🇷Turkish proverb”When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”
🇮🇹Umberto Eco”He who does not read will have lived only one life at 70. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is a backward immortality.”
🇦🇹Viktor Frankl”Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
🇦🇹Viktor Frankl”When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
🇫🇷Victor Hugo”Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.”
🇫🇷Victor Hugo”How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.”
🇻🇳Vietnamese proverb”Không có gì quý hơn độc lập, tự do. Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.”
🇬🇧Virginia Woolf”Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
🇺🇸Vivien Greene”Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass… It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
🇷🇺Vladimir Kramnik”I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player’s personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.”
🇫🇷Voltaire”Common sense is not so common.”
🇫🇷Voltaire”Nothing is more dangerous than ignorance and intolerance armed with power.”
🇫🇷Voltaire”The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
🇫🇷Voltaire”Paper money eventually returns to it's intrinsic value, zero.”
🇫🇷Voltaire”The best government is where less unuseful people are.”
🇫🇷Voltaire”I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
🇺🇸Warren Buffet”You will lose lot of friends when you get serious about your life goals. That's why the Lamborghini got 2 seats and a bus has 50.”
🇺🇸Warren Buffet”You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.”
🇩🇪Walter Benjamin”All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”
🇺🇸Walter Isaacson”Be curious about all fields; the future belongs to those who can connect creativity to technology.”
🇺🇸Walter Williams”A caged canary is safe but not free.”
🇩🇪Werner Heisenberg”Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.”
🇩🇪Werner Heisenberg”Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.”
🇩🇪Werner Heisenberg”Causality can only explain later events by earlier events, but it can never explain the beginning.”
🇩🇪Wernher Von Braun”Science is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.”
🇺🇸William Edgar Borah”The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
🇺🇸William Carlos Williams”It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!”
🇬🇧William Ernest Henley”I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
🇺🇸William Faulkner”Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
🇬🇧William Gibson”Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators.”
🇺🇸William Napier”Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.”
🇳🇱William of Orange”It is not necessary to hope in order to act, nor to succeed in order to persevere.”
🇬🇧William Shakespeare”It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
🇬🇧William Shakespeare”Have more than you show, speak less than you know.”
🇬🇧William Shakespeare”All's well that ends well” (but ”All good things come to an end” — 🇮🇱 Hebrew Proverb)”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
🇬🇧Winston Churchill”You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”
🇦🇹Wolfgang Pauli”The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.”
🇬🇧Woody Allen”Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.”
🇫🇷Yann LeCun”Language is an imperfect, incomplete, and low-bandwidth serialization protocol for the internal data structures we call thoughts.”
🇫🇷Yann LeCun”Every institution, library, foundation, cultural group, and government around the world that possesses cultural content should make it available for training ***free and open*** AI foundation models.”
🇮🇱Yuval Noah Harari”Humans should always retain the freedom to doubt, to check again, to hear a second opinion, to try a different path.”
🌎Anonymous (wise quote)”The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today.”

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