Famous Proverbs and Quotes

 

For us physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Yes, there is a nirvana: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
- Mahatma Gandhi

All mankind are my brethren; to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, and not as they are said to be.
- George Bernard Shaw

If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher, from Star Trek

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
- Albert Einstein

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin D'Israeli

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

If you want to be original, question all truths handed down to you.
- Niles Eldridge

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- Wiliam Butler Yeats

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
- Voltaire

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
- Benjamin Franklin

Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space. - Democritus, 460 B.C.

Be led by reason.
- Greek Proverb

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill

Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Gyorgyi

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
- Anatole France

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei

Think for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try to think for your self.
- Jean Riboud

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried.
- Frank Tyger

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
- Christopher Wren, 1632 – 1723

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandi

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started....the fate of humanity is in his hands.
- Abraham Lincoln

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
- Jesse Lee Bennett

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
- Cicero

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
- Albert Einstein

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Emerson

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, the dunces are all against him.
- Jonathan Swift

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- Michael Corleone, in The Godfather

To live life effectively is to live with adequate information.
- Norbert Weiner

Logic is the art of making the truth prevail.
- La Bruyere

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. 
- Stephen W. Hawking

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.
- Charles W. Eliot

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lipman

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin Disraeli