Helen Keller on Life
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
Winston Churchill on Success
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Horace on Poetry
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Elon Musk on Business
“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”
Albert Einstein on Humanity
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Joseph Conrad on Work
“I don’t like work… but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself.”
Anatole France on Life
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
Mohandas Gandhi on Anger
“Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”
Plato on War
“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
Francis Bacon on Change
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
Frank Zappa on the Mind
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
Charles Caleb Colton Cynical Quote
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Benjamin Franklin on Money
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
Michel de Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Edith Wharton on Happiness
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
Thomas H. Huxley on Science
“The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
John Barrymore on Dreams
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
Marshall McLuhan on Life
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”
Margaret Atwood on Love
“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Louis L’Amour on Contentment
“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.”
Charles Lindbergh on Dreams
“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”
Edsger Dijkstra on Computers
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
