Nermin's quotes

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"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
9,017 people liked it

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

tags: wisdom
1,618 people liked it

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom
765 people liked it

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
258 people liked it

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poetry
112 people liked it

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
— William Blake

tags: poetry
29 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
851 people liked it

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
550 people liked it

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy
516 people liked it

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress
475 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
462 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
354 people liked it

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: morality, philosophy
178 people liked it

"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
— Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)

tags: philosophy
140 people liked it

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;"
— Khalil Gibran (The Prophet)

tags: philosophy
58 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,257 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
5,543 people liked it

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

tags: imagination
3,350 people liked it

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

tags: humor
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"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, humor
1,929 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
1,606 people liked it

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

tags: religion, science
1,547 people liked it

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

tags: fav
1,208 people liked it

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

763 people liked it

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
674 people liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
587 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
562 people liked it

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, science, systems
494 people liked it

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

tags: life
530 people liked it

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

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

tags: love
430 people liked it

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

431 people liked it

"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

343 people liked it

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

281 people liked it

"You never fail until you stop trying."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational
191 people liked it

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
— Albert Einstein

177 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
170 people liked it

"Albert Einstein's Rules of Work:

1) Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2) From discord, find harmony.
3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: clutter, difficulty, discord, harmony, oppurtunity, work
163 people liked it

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
— Albert Einstein

156 people liked it

"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
— William Blake

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
88 people liked it

"If the Doors of Perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it truly is - infinite."
— William Blake

tags: infinity, perception
45 people liked it

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
— William Blake

tags: opinions, thought
37 people liked it

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
— William Blake

tags: argument, contraries
18 people liked it

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
— William Blake

18 people liked it

"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
— William Blake

tags: desire, self-control
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"What is now proved was once only imagined."
— William Blake

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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
— William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)

tags: love
11 people liked it