Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
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Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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I start where the last man left off.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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There will, one day, spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
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Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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What you are will show in what you do.
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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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Well the future for me is already a thing of the past.
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Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
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Sailin’ ‘round the world in a dirty gondola,
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Feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.
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Every pleasures got an edge of pain, pay for your ticket and don't complain.
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People don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.
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Charity is supposed to cover up for a multitude of sins.
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All the money you make will never buy back your soul.
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
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I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
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Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
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Don't criticize what you can't understand.
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Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
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I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them
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