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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
― Archimedes

“The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.”
― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Nothing endures but change.”
― Heraclitus

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”
― Barack Obama

“A calm demeanor will deter the danger of words spoken in anger or panic.”
― Shmiras Haloshon

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
― Muhammad Ali

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Either you run the day or the day runs you..”
― Jim Rohn

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
― Alec Bourne

“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
― Archimedes

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
― Margaret Mead

“Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ”
― Margaret Mead

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

“There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.”
― Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

“ومن أصعب الأمور على العالم أن يقنع الجاهل بقيمة العلم، كما أن من أصعب الأمور على قواد الفكر في أمة جاهلة أن يقودوا الرأي العام فيها إلى الاهتمام بالعلم.”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة

“الناس لا يكلفون انفسهم عناءاً كبيراً في تصوير الحياة وتخيلها، وهم يبدون استعداداً مدهشاً لتصديق ما لا يجوز تصديقه، وتصور مالا ينبغي تصوره، وكأنما آلو على أنفسهم ألا يبذلوا جهداً، وألا يحملوا أنفسهم مشقة أو عناء، والكثرة العظمى من الناس في جهل مطبق بحقائق الحياة، ومع ذلك فهم راضون عن أنفسهم مدافعون عن جهالاتهم وأوهامهم، وإن بعضهم ليتحمس للحياة ويضحي بنفسه في سبيلها، وآية ذلك إن جهالة الجاهل جزء من شخصيته، فهو يجد في الدفاع عنها دفاعاً عن نفسه وعن حياته.”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة, العلم والحياة

“فطالب العلم طالب حقيقة ، و من طلب الحقيقة أحب الحق .. و من أحب الحق كان صادقا .. و من كان صادقا كان شجاعا .. و من كان شجاعا كان ذا مروءة .. و من كان ذا مروءة كان كريما .. و من كان كريما كان رحيما ، و أحب الخير ، و ناصر العدل ، و أمر بالمعروف ، و نهى عن المنكر”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة, العلم والحياة

“الحقيقة بنت البحث”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة

“لقد كنت أفني وأنا طفل لكي أكون في المقدمة، فخلت طفولتي من كل بهيج. ولقد تعلمت في تلك السن أن اللعب مضيعة للوقت - كما كانت تقول والدتى -، تعلمت الوقار والسكون في سن اللهو والمرح، حتى الجري كنت أعتبره خروجاً عن الوقار”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة

“أما العامة من الناس فلا يقنعهم المنطق، ولا يخضعون لسلطان العقل”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة , العلم والحياة