Quotes

  • Education is Imposed Ignorance'
  • If I have the belief that I can do it,I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
  • And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.
  • The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists that is why they invented hell.
  • Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.
  • Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity
  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
  • What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
  • Sometime the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.
  • A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be .
  • A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
  • A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
  • All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
  • Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
  • As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
  • Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
  • Force always attracts men of low morality.
  • I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
  • If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
  • Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
  • It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
  • Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
  • The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
  • He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool — shun him!
  • He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is unlearned — teach him!
  • He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep — awaken him!
  • He who knows and knows that he knows, is enlightened — follow him!

—Arab proverb