Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln


Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-Abraham Lincoln


Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
-Abraham Lincoln


Some day I shall be President.
-Abraham Lincoln


Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
-Abraham Lincoln


Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
-Abraham Lincoln


Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
-Abraham Lincoln


Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-Abraham Lincoln


With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
-Abraham Lincoln


With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
-Abraham Lincoln


With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-Abraham Lincoln


You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-Abraham Lincoln


You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
-Abraham Lincoln






You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-Abraham Lincoln


You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-Abraham Lincoln




Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln


That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-Abraham Lincoln


The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
-Abraham Lincoln


The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
-Abraham Lincoln


The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln


The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-Abraham Lincoln






The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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


The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-Abraham Lincoln


The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-Abraham Lincoln


The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
-Abraham Lincoln


The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
-Abraham Lincoln


The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-Abraham Lincoln


The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-Abraham Lincoln


The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
-Abraham Lincoln




I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-Abraham Lincoln


I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln


I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
-Abraham Lincoln


I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-Abraham Lincoln


I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
-Abraham Lincoln


Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-Abraham Lincoln


Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
-Abraham Lincoln


Some day I shall be President.
-Abraham Lincoln


Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
-Abraham Lincoln


Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
-Abraham Lincoln


Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
-Abraham Lincoln






Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln


That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-Abraham Lincoln


The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
-Abraham Lincoln


The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
-Abraham Lincoln


The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln


The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-Abraham Lincoln






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


The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-Abraham Lincoln


The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-Abraham Lincoln


The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
-Abraham Lincoln


The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
-Abraham Lincoln


The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-Abraham Lincoln


The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-Abraham Lincoln


The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
-Abraham Lincoln




I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln


I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
-Abraham Lincoln


I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
-Abraham Lincoln


I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
-Abraham Lincoln


I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-Abraham Lincoln


I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
-Abraham Lincoln




I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-Abraham Lincoln


I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
-Abraham Lincoln


I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln


I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
-Abraham Lincoln


I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-Abraham Lincoln


I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
-Abraham Lincoln






I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln


I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
-Abraham Lincoln


I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
-Abraham Lincoln


I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
-Abraham Lincoln


I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-Abraham Lincoln


I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
-Abraham Lincoln






If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
-Abraham Lincoln


If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln


If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-Abraham Lincoln


If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-Abraham Lincoln


If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-Abraham Lincoln


If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
-Abraham Lincoln


If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln


Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
-Abraham Lincoln






If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
-Abraham Lincoln


If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln


If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
-Abraham Lincoln


If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-Abraham Lincoln


If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
-Abraham Lincoln


If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
-Abraham Lincoln


If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln


Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
-Abraham Lincoln






Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
-Abraham Lincoln


Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-Abraham Lincoln


Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
-Abraham Lincoln


Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
-Abraham Lincoln




Everybody likes a compliment.
-Abraham Lincoln


Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
-Abraham Lincoln




Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-Abraham Lincoln


Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
-Abraham Lincoln


He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-Abraham Lincoln


He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
-Abraham Lincoln


Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
-Abraham Lincoln


How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
-Abraham Lincoln






I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-Abraham Lincoln


I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-Abraham Lincoln


I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
-Abraham Lincoln


I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
-Abraham Lincoln


I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
-Abraham Lincoln


I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
-Abraham Lincoln


I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Abraham Lincoln


I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
-Abraham Lincoln




A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
-Abraham Lincoln


A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-Abraham Lincoln


A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
-Abraham Lincoln


All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
-Abraham Lincoln


All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
-Abraham Lincoln


Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
-Abraham Lincoln






Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
-Abraham Lincoln


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-Abraham Lincoln


America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-Abraham Lincoln


Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
-Abraham Lincoln


As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln


As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
-Abraham Lincoln






Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
-Abraham Lincoln


Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
-Abraham Lincoln


Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-Abraham Lincoln


Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln


Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
-Abraham Lincoln


Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln


Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln


Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
-Abraham Lincoln

Mother Teresa Quotes

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

-Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

-Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

-Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

-Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

-Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

-Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

-Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

-Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

-Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile.

-Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

-Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

-Mother Teresa

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

-Mother Teresa

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

-Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

-Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

-Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

-Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

-Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

-Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

-Mother Teresa

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

-Mother Teresa

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

-Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

-Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

-Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

-Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

-Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

-Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

-Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

-Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

-Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

-Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

-Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

-Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

-Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

-Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

-Mother Teresa

Abdul Kalam Quotes

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
-Abdul Kalam


I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-Abdul Kalam


If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
-Abdul Kalam




If we are not free, no one will respect us.
-Abdul Kalam


In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
-Abdul Kalam


It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
-Abdul Kalam


Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
-Abdul Kalam


Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
-Abdul Kalam


As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
-Abdul Kalam


Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
-Abdul Kalam


Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
-Abdul Kalam


Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
-Abdul Kalam


Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
-Abdul Kalam


English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
-Abdul Kalam


God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
-Abdul Kalam






Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
-Abdul Kalam


Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
-Abdul Kalam


My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-Abdul Kalam


No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
-Abdul Kalam


Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
-Abdul Kalam






Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
-Abdul Kalam


To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
-Abdul Kalam


Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
-Abdul Kalam


We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
-Abdul Kalam


We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
-Abdul Kalam


We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-Abdul Kalam


We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
-Abdul Kalam


Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
-Abdul Kalam


You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-Abdul Kalam

Albert Einstein Quotes

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
--Albert Einstein


A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
--Albert Einstein


A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein


A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
--Albert Einstein


A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
--Albert Einstein


All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
--Albert Einstein




All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
--Albert Einstein


All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
--Albert Einstein


An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
--Albert Einstein


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
--Albert Einstein


Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein


Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
--Albert Einstein




Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
--Albert Einstein


Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
--Albert Einstein


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
--Albert Einstein


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


Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein


Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
--Albert Einstein




Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
--Albert Einstein


Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
--Albert Einstein


Force always attracts men of low morality.
--Albert Einstein


God always takes the simplest way.
--Albert Einstein


God does not play dice.
--Albert Einstein


God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
--Albert Einstein






Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein


He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
--Albert Einstein


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
--Albert Einstein


Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
--Albert Einstein


Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
--Albert Einstein


I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
--Albert Einstein


I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
---Albert Einstein




I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
-Albert Einstein


I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
-Albert Einstein


I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
-Albert Einstein


I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
-Albert Einstein


I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
-Albert Einstein


I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
-Albert Einstein




I have just got a new theory of eternity.
-Albert Einstein


I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
-Albert Einstein


I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein


I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-Albert Einstein


I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein


I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
-Albert Einstein






I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
-Albert Einstein


I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
-Albert Einstein


I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
-Albert Einstein


If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein


If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-Albert Einstein


If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-Albert Einstein


If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
-Albert Einstein


If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-Albert Einstein




Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein


Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein


In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
-Albert Einstein


In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
-Albert Einstein


Information is not knowledge.
-Albert Einstein


Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein






Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
-Albert Einstein


Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein


Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
-Albert Einstein


It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
-Albert Einstein


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
-Albert Einstein


It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein






It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
-Albert Einstein


It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
-Albert Einstein


It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-Albert Einstein


It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
-Albert Einstein


It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
-Albert Einstein


It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein


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






Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
-Albert Einstein


Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
-Albert Einstein


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein


Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
-Albert Einstein


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


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
-Albert Einstein




Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein


Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-Albert Einstein


Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
-Albert Einstein


Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
-Albert Einstein


Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
-Albert Einstein


Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
-Albert Einstein






My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-Albert Einstein


Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
-Albert Einstein


Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-Albert Einstein


Never lose a holy curiosity.
-Albert Einstein


No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-Albert Einstein


No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
-Albert Einstein


Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Albert Einstein


Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein




Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
-Albert Einstein


Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
-Albert Einstein


One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
-Albert Einstein


One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
-Albert Einstein


Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-Albert Einstein


Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
-Albert Einstein




Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein


Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
-Albert Einstein


Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
-Albert Einstein


People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
-Albert Einstein


Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein


Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
-Albert Einstein






Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
-Albert Einstein


Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
-Albert Einstein


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein


Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
-Albert Einstein


Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein


Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
-Albert Einstein


Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
-Albert Einstein


Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-Albert Einstein




Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
-Albert Einstein


Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-Albert Einstein


That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-Albert Einstein


The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
-Albert Einstein


The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
-Albert Einstein


The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-Albert Einstein






The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-Albert Einstein


The environment is everything that isn't me.
-Albert Einstein


The faster you go, the shorter you are.
-Albert Einstein


The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
-Albert Einstein


The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-Albert Einstein


The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-Albert Einstein






The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
-Albert Einstein


The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
-Albert Einstein


The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein


The man of science is a poor philosopher.
-Albert Einstein


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


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-Albert Einstein


The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
-Albert Einstein


The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-Albert Einstein






The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
-Albert Einstein


The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein


The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
-Albert Einstein


The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
-Albert Einstein


The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-Albert Einstein


The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-Albert Einstein






The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
-Albert Einstein


The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein


The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
-Albert Einstein


The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
-Albert Einstein


The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
-Albert Einstein


The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-Albert Einstein






The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-Albert Einstein


There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein


There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
-Albert Einstein


There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
-Albert Einstein


There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
-Albert Einstein


Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
-Albert Einstein


Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
-Albert Einstein


To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
-Albert Einstein




To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
-Albert Einstein


Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
-Albert Einstein


True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
-Albert Einstein


True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
-Albert Einstein


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein


We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein






We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
-Albert Einstein


We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein


We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
-Albert Einstein


We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-Albert Einstein


We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-Albert Einstein


Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
-Albert Einstein






When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
-Albert Einstein


When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein


When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
-Albert Einstein


Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
-Albert Einstein


Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-Albert Einstein


Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-Albert Einstein


You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
-Albert Einstein


You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
-Albert Einstein


You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
-Albert Einstein


You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
-Albert Einstein


You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
-Albert Einstein

Socrates Quotes

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

-Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

-Socrates

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

-Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

-Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

-Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

-Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

-Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

-Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

-Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

-Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

-Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

-Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

-Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

-Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

-Socrates

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

-Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

-Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

-Socrates

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

-Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

-Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

-Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

-Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

-Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

-Socrates

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

-Socrates

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

-Socrates

An honest man is always a child.

-Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

-Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

-Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.

-Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

-Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

-Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

-Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

-Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

-Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

-Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

-Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

-Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

-Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

-Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

-Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

-Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

-Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

-Socrates