"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers." "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." "Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may." "Courage is knowing what not to fear." "For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet." "Friends have all things in common." "I shall assume that your silence gives consent." "Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind." "Life must be lived as play." "Love is a serious mental disease." "May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him." "Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life." "Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." "No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow." "Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within." "Only the dead have seen the end of war." "The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings." "The measure of a man is what he does with power." "Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder." "Your silence gives consent."
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human." "A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine." "A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained." "I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past." "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted." "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." "Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity." "May not machines carry out something which ought to be described as thinking but which is very different from what a man does?" "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition." "Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." "The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer." "Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible." "We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge." "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
"A good book is the purest essence of a human soul." "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." "A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things." "A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one."
"A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility." "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." "A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages." "All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught." "All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books." "Clever men are good, but they are not the best." "Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." "Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him." "Every noble work is at first impossible." "Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do." "Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further." "Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books." "History is the essence of innumerable biographies." "If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it." "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." "Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls." "Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light." "Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world." "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." "My books are friends that never fail me." "My whinstone house my castle is— I have my own four walls." "No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense." "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." "Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world." "Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time." "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." "Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." "The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist." "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." "The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss." "There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done." "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
"A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish." "A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism." "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself." "Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included)." "Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth." "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." "History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends." "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." "I am nothing but I must be everything." "If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist." "Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human." "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please." "Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same." "Neither of us cares a straw for popularity." "No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need." "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people." "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering." "The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money." "The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way." "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "The importunity of the fellow is also niggerlike." "The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope." "The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty." "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." "The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property." "The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." "The uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat." "The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself." "There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism." "To be radical is to grasp things by the root."
"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner." "A good name is like a precious ointment; it filleth all around about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers." "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." "Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read." "Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences." "Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." "But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." "Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." "Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends." "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable." "Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home." "Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason." "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures." "God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation." "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." "Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick." "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world." "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." "If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted." "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." "In charity there is no excess." "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." "It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty." "It is impossible to love and be wise." "It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed." "It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other." "Knowledge is power." "Knowledge itself is power." "Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." "Money is a great servant but a bad master." "Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." "Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished." "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." "No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth." "Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." "Nothing is terrible except fear itself." "Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it." "Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider." "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." "Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." "Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress." "Riches are for spending." "Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted." "Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God." "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." "The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." "The joys of parents are secret; and so are their grief and fears." "The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it." "The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power." "The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses." "There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." "There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise." "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying." "There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious." "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." "Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out." "Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion." "Vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate." "We cannot command Nature except by obeying her." "When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative." "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul." "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." "Wonder is the seed of knowledge."
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"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." "All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge." "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." "As you think, so shall you become." "Be happy, but never satisfied." "Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success." "Defeat is a state of mind, no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality." "Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence." "Do not fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." "Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it." "I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times." "I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine." "I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself." "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." "I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine." "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done." "If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you." "In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus." "In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature." "It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials." "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." "Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier." "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." "Obey the principles without being bound by them." "Real living is living for others." "Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged." "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." "The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems." "The More we value things, the less we value ourselves." "The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits." "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." "Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation." Also ReadQuotations / Quotes by famous personalities
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"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." "Be as you wish to seem." "Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." "Beauty is a short-lived tyranny." "Beware the barrenness of a busy life." "By all means marry, if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher." "By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful." "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." "Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others." "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." "Envy is the ulcer of the soul." "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." "From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." "Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love." "Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one." "Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods." "He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy." "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." "I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know." "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." "I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good." "If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it." "If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." "Let him that would move the world, first move himself." "My belief is that to have no wants is divine." "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior." "Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change." "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." "Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of." "Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune." "See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all." "The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him." "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." "The unexamined life is not worth living." "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." "To find yourself, think for yourself." "To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge." "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." "Virtue does not come from wealth, but.... wealth, and every other good thing which men have.... comes from virtue." "When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser." "Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools." "Wisdom begins in wonder."
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