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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
11,778 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,332 people liked it

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
— Stephen W. Hawking

tags: ignorance, knowledge
66 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,366 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,227 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,084 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,815 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,811 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
5,988 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,418 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
5,584 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,449 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,539 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,594 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,204 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,488 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,968 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,727 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,218 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,204 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
6,057 people liked it

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

tags: wisdom
1,628 people liked it

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,442 people liked it

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, knowledge
434 people liked it

"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
221 people liked it

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
128 people liked it

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: knowledge
58 people liked it

"knowing is not enough,we must apply
willing is not enough,we must do.."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: knowledge
37 people liked it

"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter."
— Malcolm Gladwell (Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking)

tags: decisions, knowledge, understanding
38 people liked it

"Know what you are talking about."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

tags: knowledge, language
25 people liked it

"The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.

... My answer to him was, "... when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.""
— Isaac Asimov

tags: knowledge, science
26 people liked it

"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."
— Laozi

tags: knowledge, wisdom
20 people liked it

"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
— Confucius

tags: futility, knowledge, religion
17 people liked it

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
518 people liked it

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
189 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
— Confucius

tags: success
172 people liked it

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
44 people liked it

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
— Confucius

40 people liked it

"The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"
— Confucius

tags: tao, wisdom, zen
39 people liked it

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
— Confucius

28 people liked it

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. "
— Confucius

27 people liked it

"Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth."
— Archimedes

3 people liked it

"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: thinking
227 people liked it

"There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something."
— Thomas A. Edison

20 people liked it

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational
54 people liked it

"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t."
— Thomas A. Edison

21 people liked it

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. "
— Thomas A. Edison

20 people liked it

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
— Thomas A. Edison

29 people liked it

"Rules? Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something!"
— Thomas A. Edison

14 people liked it

"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: religion
4 people liked it

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