Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.
Robert GreeneNow I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie ChanHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireAs scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
Stephen HawkingThe key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce LeeThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyOne 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.
Blaise PascalIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
AristotleTo know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.
Mahatma GandhiThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireIt is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonWhen I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.
Jurgen KloppThe heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen KellerNo one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan QuayleThose who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
Herbert HooverI’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘
Bill GatesI sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. LewisIt’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
Jeff BezosA useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThose who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Lao TzuMy theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
Jerry SeinfeldI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David ThoreauAn overflow of good converts to bad.
William ShakespeareThe artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert CamusA man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard ShawThe artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.
Angelina JolieEverything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard ShawYou just have to have a simple faith.
Jimmy CarterHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas SowellNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamHe who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da VinciEternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody AllenTo the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
Mr. TThe desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich NietzscheJustice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
EpicurusThought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David HareThe highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert SchweitzerBe not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch SpinozaBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.
Jordan PetersonObserve constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus AureliusI get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
BonoThe Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
Lao TzuIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee WilliamsHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel JohnsonWe tend to mistake music for the physical object.
David ByrneI have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.
Steven WrightNothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise PascalYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyThe learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
PlatoI believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Neil ArmstrongStudy men, not historians.
Harry S. TrumanFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James