Quotes
“Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding” - Albert Einstein
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C Clarke
“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they’re supposed to run wild until they find someone — just as wild — to run with.” -Carrie Bradshaw
“Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery; For where a heart is hard they make no battery.”- W. Shakespeare- on Venus and Adonis
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Information is the currency of democracy.” -Thomas Jefferson
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -Albert Einstein
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” -JFK
“Education is slow but powerful force” -J. William Fulbright
“Tell me your hero. And I’ll tell you who you are”
“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical” -Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library” -Jorge Luis Borges
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa
“Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra, In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ” -Fran Lebowitz
“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn’t mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It’s what you do to the people you say you love, that’s what matters. It’s the only thing that counts.” - The Last Kiss
“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.” - Gandhi
“That fondness for science, … that affability and condescension which God shows to the learned, that promptitude with which he protects and supports them in the elucidation of obscurities and in the removal of difficulties, has encouraged me to compose a short work on calculating by al-jabr(restoring) and al-muqabala(comparing) , confining it to what is easiest and most useful in arithmetic.” - Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
“The Americans have no philosophic school of their own and are very little bothered by all those which divide Europe; they hardly know their names.” - Alexis de Tocqueville
“The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding” - Louis Brandeis.
“When women go wrong, men go right after them.” - Mae West
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election” -Bill Vaughn”
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.” - George Jean Nathan
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” - JFK, 1963
“We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me. ” - W. H. Auden
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. In the end only I shall remain.” - Paul Atreides, in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert
“I paint self-portrait because I am so often alone, because i am the person I know best.” - Frida Kahlo
