Life is what happens when you are busy elsewhere. -- John Lennon (Imagine)
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. -- Lao Tzu (570-490 BC)
I knew this story a long time ago. I have a caged bird. I let it, and should it fly back to me, then it's mine. Otherwise, it means that I never own it. Today I let you free and discover you really leave me behind. So I see what it means. -- John Lennon
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changes. -- Charles Darwin
Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it but to those who need it. -- Mario Ruppola (from Il Postino)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein
There ain't no such things as a free lunch.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -- Hamlet, IV,5
If a hammer is the only tool you know, everything looks like a nail to you.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. -- Albert Einstein
When a distinguished and elderly scientist says that something is possible, he's almost certainly correct; when he says something is impossible, he's very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. -- Ivern Ball
I have no special gifts. I am just passionately curious. -- Albert Einstein
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. -- Vaclav Havel
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov
I am yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Paul Anderson
Ninty percent of life is just being there. -- Woody Allen
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. -- Henri Poincare
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Freedom and slavery are mental states. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Albert Einstein
Since most concepts of science are relatively simple (once you understand them), any ambitious scientist must, in self-preservation, prevent his colleagues from discovering that his ideas are simple too. -- Nicholas Vanserg
Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing about it. -- Mark Twain, about Progress
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. -- La Rochefoucauld
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Albert Einstein
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Gagehot
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein
Character is that which can do without success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. -- Albert Camus
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. -- Albert Einstein
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those that have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. -- John Quincy Adams
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking too much like hard work. -- Thomas Edison
It is easier to fight for one's principles then to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -- George Bernard Shaw
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. -- Voltaire
Doing what you've always done will get you what you've always gotten (if you're lucky).
I hate quotations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson