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.

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

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

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

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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.

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

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

Wit is educated insolence.

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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

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

Convictions are prisons.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

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.

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

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.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

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.