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"“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.” "
— Václav Havel

tags: life
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"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
— Václav Havel

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""The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.""
— Václav Havel

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"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."
— Václav Havel

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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship
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"A friend to all is a friend to none."
— Aristotle

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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
— Aristotle

tags: friends
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
— Aristotle

tags: work
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"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."
— Alexandre Dumas

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"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."
— Alexandre Dumas

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
494 people liked it

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading
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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, religion
54 people liked it

"Imgination rules the world"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination
43 people liked it

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
— Salvador Dali

tags: age, ambition, dreaming, dreams, youth
36 people liked it

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, lies, lying
19 people liked it

""Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: action, strategy, thinking
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: deciding, freedom, liberty
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
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"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
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"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

tags: humor
1,654 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
— Albert Einstein

tags: mistakes
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fav
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

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"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory)

tags: physics, science
586 people liked it

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)

tags: art, philosophy, science
473 people liked it

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr

tags: science
333 people liked it

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think"
— Niels Bohr

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"There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them."
— Niels Bohr

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"The opposite of a fact is falsehood but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth."
— Niels Bohr

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"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
— Richard P. Feynman

19 people liked it

"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part."
— Richard P. Feynman

tags: science
10 people liked it

"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
— Richard P. Feynman

tags: science
12 people liked it

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
— Richard P. Feynman

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"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."
— Richard P. Feynman

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"Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is."
— Richard P. Feynman

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"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
— Richard P. Feynman

21 people liked it

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."
— Richard P. Feynman

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""Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.""
— E.O. Wilson

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