Ayat's quotes

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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
12,353 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,790 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,264 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,235 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,784 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,067 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,413 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,065 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,793 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,124 people liked it

"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
5,794 people liked it

"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
5,934 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,176 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,304 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,829 people liked it

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
— Michael Faraday

7 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,355 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,982 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,271 people liked it

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
1,575 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,773 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,922 people liked it

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: activism, progress, reasonable, unreasonable
142 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,550 people liked it

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

tags: religion, science
1,621 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,204 people liked it

"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
1,697 people liked it

"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
613 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
584 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

317 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,302 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,744 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,459 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,322 people liked it

"أسوأ تعذيب فى العالم هو الشخص المُصر على الكلام بينما أنت مُثقل بالهموم , ترغب فى أن تبقى صامتاً وأن تصغى لأفكارك."
— أحمد خالد توفيق

73 people liked it

"من الحماقة أن يكلم المرء نفسه أمام النساء.. من الحماقة أن تتفلسف وتستعمل الموضوعية مُعتقداً أنك تُحدث صديقك الفيلسوف.. هذه النقاط سوف تستعمل ضدك يوماً ما"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

tags: women
15 people liked it

"وطنك هو المكان الذى ارتديت فيه أول سروال طويل فى حياتك، ولعبت أول مباراة كرة قدم، وسمعت أول قصيدة، وكتبت أول خطاب حب، وتلقيت أول علقة من معلمك أو خصومك فى المدرسة.. وطنك هو المكان الذى ذهبت فيه للمسجد لأول مرة وحدك، وخلعت حذاءك متحديًا صديقك أن يقف جوارك لتريا أيكما أطول قامة.. وطنك هو أول مكان تمرّغت على عشبه فى صراع مع صديق لدود من أجل فتاة لا تعرف شيئا عن كليكما"
— أحمد خالد توفيق (ما وراء الطبيعة: 12 - أسطورة البيت)

tags: home, nostalgia
45 people liked it

"إن العلم الحديث هو الحقيقة المخيبة للآمال .. فى حين كان العلم القديم هو الخيال الممتع .. إنه لشىء محزن أن يعرف المرء أن النحاس لا يتحول لذهب لكنها الحقيقة المُحبطة "
— أحمد خالد توفيق (ما وراء الطبيعة: 09 - أسطورة لعنة الفرعون)

20 people liked it

"و شعرت بأن فى روحى ثقباً .. ثقباً يتسع .. و يمتص كل ذكرياتى و حياتى و أحلامى ..
وددت لو كان شخص أعرفه بقربى .. أحكى له كل شئ .. أقص عليه حكاية الثقب"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

tags: life
51 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,861 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,656 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,427 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,767 people liked it

"HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE"
— Che Guevara (Che Guevara Speaks: Selected Speeches and Writings)

tags: america, global, inpirational, latina, reveolution
14 people liked it

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
— Che Guevara

8 people liked it

"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
— Che Guevara

tags: justice, social-justice
44 people liked it

"There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us."
— Che Guevara

13 people liked it

"لكن النظر لهذا الوضع يقول إن استمرار إسرائيل مستحيل .. لن تنجح في إبادة الفلسطينيين بالكامل، ولن تمتزج أبدًا بالوسط المعادي المحيط بها الذي يلفظها بلا توقف. أتذكر هنا كلمات أحد مفكريهم الساخرين الذي يوصي آخر من يغادر البلاد أن يطفئ النور ويغلق صنبور الماء قبل أن يركب الطائرة إلى بولندا"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

tags: politics
17 people liked it