QUOTES OF ALBERT EINSTEIN Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different

results. Albert Einstein Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Albert Einstein Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. Albert Einstein Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Share29458 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Albert Einstein Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Albert Einstein Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Albert Einstein In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. Albert Einstein The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Albert Einstein Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Albert Einstein The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. Albert Einstein Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Albert Einstein You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. Albert Einstein I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. Albert Einstein The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. Albert Einstein The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. Albert Einstein God does not play dice. Albert Einstein Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Albert Einstein

You can't blame gravity for falling in love. Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. Albert Einstein Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. Albert Einstein Force always attracts men of low morality. Albert Einstein The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. Albert Einstein It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. Albert Einstein We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Albert Einstein To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. Albert Einstein The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. Albert Einstein The environment is everything that isn't me. Albert Einstein I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. Albert Einstein The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. Albert Einstein The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are. Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. Albert Einstein The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. Albert Einstein Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Albert Einstein Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. Albert Einstein Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be

expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein It is only to the individual that a soul is given. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. Albert Einstein You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Albert Einstein The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. Albert Einstein In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. Albert Einstein The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? Albert Einstein One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. Albert Einstein The man of science is a poor philosopher. Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. Albert Einstein People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. Albert Einstein There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. Albert Einstein I have just got a new theory of eternity. Albert Einstein The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing

Newton's ground. Albert Einstein Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. Albert Einstein Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King, Jr. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. Martin Luther King, Jr. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. Martin Luther King, Jr. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King, Jr. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. A lie cannot live. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin Luther King, Jr. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr. I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr. If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Martin Luther King, Jr. The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Martin Luther King, Jr. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. Martin Luther King, Jr. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Martin Luther King, Jr. The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. Martin Luther King, Jr. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. Martin Luther King, Jr. At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King, Jr. A right delayed is a right denied. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. Martin Luther King, Jr. All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. Martin Luther King, Jr. Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. Martin Luther King, Jr. One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. Martin Luther King, Jr. A riot is the language of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" Martin Luther King, Jr. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King, Jr. If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr. Seeing is not always believing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King, Jr. If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. Martin Luther King, Jr. Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr. Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. Martin Luther King, Jr. I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr. When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. Martin Luther King, Jr. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are not makers of history. We are made by history. Martin Luther King, Jr. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr. The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. Martin Luther King, Jr. The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. Martin Luther King, Jr. The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. Martin Luther King, Jr. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. Martin Luther King, Jr. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Martin Luther King, Jr. I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. Martin Luther King, Jr. We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Martin Luther King, Jr. Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King, Jr. There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must use time creatively. Martin Luther King, Jr. The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. Martin Luther King, Jr. Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle. William Shakespeare To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare Expectation is the root of all heartache. William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. William Shakespeare God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. William Shakespeare And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. William Shakespeare An overflow of good converts to bad. William Shakespeare Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. William Shakespeare Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. William Shakespeare Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted,

all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. William Shakespeare It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. William Shakespeare Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. William Shakespeare Boldness be my friend. William Shakespeare Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. William Shakespeare Women may fall when there's no strength in men. William Shakespeare Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. William Shakespeare Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth. William Shakespeare As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. William Shakespeare Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. William Shakespeare Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. William Shakespeare Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. William Shakespeare Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue. William Shakespeare But men are men; the best sometimes forget. William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare The lady doth protest too much, methinks. William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. William Shakespeare This above all; to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. William Shakespeare Having nothing, nothing can he lose. William Shakespeare Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer. William Shakespeare Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. William Shakespeare How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. William Shakespeare I say there is no darkness but ignorance. William Shakespeare Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. William Shakespeare The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. William Shakespeare By that sin fell the angels. William Shakespeare No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. William Shakespeare Parting is such sweet sorrow. William Shakespeare The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. William Shakespeare Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? William Shakespeare Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. William Shakespeare In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. William Shakespeare Speak low, if you speak love. William Shakespeare Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. William Shakespeare As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. William Shakespeare Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare What is past is prologue. William Shakespeare Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. William Shakespeare Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. William Shakespeare When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. William Shakespeare We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. William Shakespeare Death is a fearful thing. William Shakespeare God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. William Shakespeare The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. William Shakespeare Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. William Shakespeare If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. William Shakespeare Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. William Shakespeare Love is too young to know what conscience is. William Shakespeare The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. William Shakespeare I will praise any man that will praise me. William Shakespeare Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! William Shakespeare I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. William Shakespeare Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. William Shakespeare I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. William Shakespeare He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. William Shakespeare To do a great right do a little wrong. William Shakespeare For I can raise no money by vile means. William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! William Shakespeare I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare The love of heaven makes one heavenly. William Shakespeare Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. William Shakespeare The golden age is before us, not behind us. William Shakespeare Neither a borrower nor a lender be. William Shakespeare Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. William Shakespeare The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare To be, or not to be: that is the question. William Shakespeare There is no darkness but ignorance. William Shakespeare They do not love that do not show their love. William Shakespeare Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. William Shakespeare There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. William Shakespeare When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. William Shakespeare No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. William Shakespeare Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. William Shakespeare One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. William Shakespeare Farewell, fair cruelty. William Shakespeare If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. William Shakespeare Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. William Shakespeare Nothing can come of nothing. William Shakespeare If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. William Shakespeare Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! William Shakespeare What's done can't be undone. William Shakespeare Men's vows are women's traitors! William Shakespeare Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. William Shakespeare The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. William Shakespeare If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. William Shakespeare Lawless are they that make their wills their law. William Shakespeare

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. William Shakespeare Time and the hour run through the roughest day. William Shakespeare Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. William Shakespeare The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. William Shakespeare What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. William Shakespeare Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. William Shakespeare The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. William Shakespeare I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. William Shakespeare Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare How well he's read, to reason against reading! William Shakespeare I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. William Shakespeare O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! William Shakespeare It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. William Shakespeare I bear a charmed life. William Shakespeare For my part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. William Shakespeare O, had I but followed the arts! William Shakespeare O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! William Shakespeare There's place and means for every man alive. William Shakespeare There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. William Shakespeare I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. William Shakespeare Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare I was adored once too. William Shakespeare Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? William Shakespeare My pride fell with my fortunes. William Shakespeare The attempt and not the deed confounds us. William Shakespeare Let no such man be trusted. William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. William Shakespeare Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valor. William Shakespeare Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. William Shakespeare Such as we are made of, such we be. William Shakespeare 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. William Shakespeare There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. William Shakespeare I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. William Shakespeare O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. William Shakespeare The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. William Shakespeare They say miracles are past. William Shakespeare Men shut their doors against a setting sun. William Shakespeare 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. William Shakespeare He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. William Shakespeare Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above. William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! William Shakespeare The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare 'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of. William Shakespeare O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! William Shakespeare Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. William Shakespeare Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? William Shakespeare Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. William Shakespeare So foul and fair a day I have not seen. William Shakespeare How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! William Shakespeare Now is the winter of our discontent. William Shakespeare Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. William Shakespeare There's many a man has more hair than wit. -William Shakespeare There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. -William Shakespeare Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. William Shakespeare Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. William Shakespeare Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. William Shakespeare We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. William Shakespeare Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove. William Shakespeare

SOCRATES The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Socrates I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates An honest man is always a child. Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Socrates Be as you wish to seem. Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Socrates Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Socrates I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. Socrates If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates It is not living that matters, but living rightly. Socrates Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. Socrates One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. Socrates I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Socrates The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. Socrates Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. Socrates