Popular Quotes Through Time
Discover a treasured collection of popular quotes that remain relevant and continue to motivate and uplift.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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