Quotes to inspire and reflect

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Wit is educated insolence.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Convictions are prisons.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

There is no education like adversity.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more