Quotes to inspire and reflect

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Never confuse movement with action.

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

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

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

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

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

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

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

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Wit is educated insolence.

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

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

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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

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

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Convictions are prisons.

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

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

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.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

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

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

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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

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