These are of course taken from many other sources, but this is by no means a copy of anything. I have carefully selected only quotes that I enjoy and appreciate.
"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."
~ Buddha
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."
~ Buddha
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
~ Buddha
"What we think, we become."
~ Buddha
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."
~ Buddha
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."
~ Buddha
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind."
~ Buddha
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
~ Buddha
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."
~ Buddha
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe."
~ Albert Einstein
"You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No we must not; You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball."
~ Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
~ Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile diease, the measles of mankind."
~ Albert Einstein
"I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings."
~ Albert Einstein
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
~ Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~ Albert Einstein
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
~ Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
~ Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
~ Albert Einstein
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."
~ Mary Pettibone Poole
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
~ George Eliot
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
~ Aldous Huxley
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
~ Confucius
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
~ HL Mencken
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
~ HL Mencken
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
~ HL Mencken
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
~ HL Mencken
"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."
~ HL Mencken
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
~ HL Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
~ HL Mencken
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
~ HL Mencken
"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
~ Stephen King
"I have to remind myself that some birds weren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knew it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But your world is just that much colder and emptier when they're gone. I don't know... maybe I just miss my friend."
~ Stephen King
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
~ Stephen Hawking
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
~ Stephen Hawking
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
