Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

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.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

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

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

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

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.

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

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

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

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

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Wit is educated insolence.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

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

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.