Popular Quotes Through Time

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids 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.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.