Best Quotes Around the World

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The last few years I’ve been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn’t that interesting to me. Now that I’m directing, it’s all new again.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‚ambient music.‘ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Research is creating new knowledge.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

We’ve demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don’t let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don’t allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we’d like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Because we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

I love food.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Real food, I’ve found, is actually better than dieting.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.