Quotes to inspire and reflect

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their tryanny?

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. Ernesto "Che

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved. W.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. W. S.

I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

Guts is grace under pressure.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of conscious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sandiest me to God.

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. J. S.

God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

I aught join a club and beat you over the head with it.

To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? W. H.