Quotes

Life-altering statements.... 

These are some statements that were made by individuals who were mortals just like you and me, but are eternally preserved in our history. Against the harsh and brutal effects of time, they left us their ideas and entrust us with their hope; life-altering statements. I have shared them with you. Now, it is your choice to accept or reject them.

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Change is the essence of life.

Be willing to surrender what you are, for what you could become.

Anonymous 

難の無い人生 は 無難な人生。難の有る人生 は 有難い人生。

(nan no nai jinsei ha bunan na jinsei. nan no aru jinsei ha arigatai jinsei.)

Trans: An easy life is a secure life. A life filled with difficulty is a blessing.

Anonymous

Per aspera ad astra

Trans:  Through hardships to the stars  

Anonymous

Aim for the stars and land on the moon.

Anonymous

そこそこで済むならそこそこで

soko soko de sumu nara, soko soko de..

If so much effort is needed (to finish something), then only use that much..

Jujutsu Kaisen Anime

Learn about everything and be ignorant of nothing.

Truth is what remains when facts are not distorted by humanity's perception.

Y.S. Yap

Work hard and play hard.

And when you work hard, make sure it does not go unnoticed.

Y.S. Yap

 It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Geoffrey F. Abert 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

When Lord Rayleigh received one of Britain's highest honors, the Order of Merit, in 1902, this his how he attributed his success: "The only merit of which I personally am conscious was that of having pleased myself by my studies, and any results that may be due to my researches were owing to the fact that it has been a pleasure for me to become a physicist."

Lord Rayleigh

 You do not do evil to those Who do evil to you, but you deal With them with forgiveness and kindness.

Prophet Muhammad

It is not the possessor of many things whom you will rightly call happy.  The name of the happy man is claimed more justly by him who has learned the art whereby to use what the gods give, and who can endure the hardships of poverty, who dreads disgrace as something worse than death.  He will not fear to die for the friend he loves, or for his country.

Horace

A wife and dower, credit and friends, even birth and beauty, are all the gifts of Queen Money.

Horace

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. 

Lady Nancy Astor

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject 

Sir Winston Churchill 

Don’t argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Greg King

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Philip Crosby

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci 

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of last generation.

Max Gluckman

To life a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

 Joseph Chiltern Pearce

Only after the last tree has been cut,

Only after the last river has been poisoned,

Only after the last fish has been caught,

Only then will you find that money can’t be eaten

An old Indian Cree saying

There are no monsters in nature except for humans

Jadav 'Molai' Payeng - Forest Man of idea

Snow I have never seen,

Pain I have never sought,

Yet snow falls unseen,

And pain comes unsought.

Shahrizar Roslan

(A personal friend)

Experience is but a thumbprint in the fabric of Time.

Shahrizar Roslan

(A personal friend)

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present."

Alice Morse Earle in Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday 

A hundred arguments mean nothing without action.

Buddha’s Teachings

Even more important than results is to do your best.

Buddha’s Teachings

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha’s Teachings

The soul without imagination is what 

Science is about what is. Engineering is about what can be.

Neil Armstrong 

When you’re tired you sleep, and when you’re not, you do physics

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

 Quotes from Albert Einstein

 Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I have no special talent.  I am only passionately curious.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

    Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. 

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds. 

I don't pretend to understand the universe - it's much bigger than I am.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate has made me an authority myself. 

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too. 

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.

Concern for man himself and his fate must form the chief interest for all technical endeavors.  Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel [to serve as President], and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it.  All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions. 

I regret that I cannot accede to your request, because I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.  [In response to the suggestion that he undergo psychoanalysis, 1927]

If I would be a young man again, I would not try to be a scientist or a scholar or a teacher.  I would choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that the modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

Woe is me.  [Upon hearing the Hiroshima bombing]

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

When the blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe, he doesn’t realize that the track he has covered is curved.  I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and science.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

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Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and generally more rational than we are (or were) – why then, the Devil take you.  Having, with all respect, given utterance to this pious wish I am (or was) 

Yours, Albert Einstein.