Motivational Quotes

If you are out to describe the truth,

leave elegance to the tailor.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain

too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The whole of science is nothing

more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy:

am I or are the others crazy?

The value of a man should be seen in

what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Technological progress is like an axe

in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.

They are wrong: it is character.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

A table,

a chair,

a bowl of fruit and a violin;

what else does a man need to be happy?

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,

and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern

with no superhuman authority behind it.

Politics is for the present,

but an equation is for eternity.

Once we accept our limits,

we go beyond them.

We cannot despair of humanity,

since we ourselves are human beings.

I very rarely think in words at all.

A thought comes,

and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life

stimulates the creative mind.

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.