Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Einstein was one of the greatest scientists and intellectuals the world has ever known. His name has become a synonym for the word genius.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke was a famous British Parliamentarian, orator, and political philosopher. He is regarded as the father of conservatism.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German born philosopher, considered very radical and wrote many texts on religion, morality, culture and science. His best known work is Thus Spake Zarathustra, a treatise on philosophy and morality.

“When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

“Woman was God’s second mistake.”

“He who has a “Why” to live, can bear almost any “how”.”

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Carl Jung was one of the world’s greatest psychoanalysts. He wrote volumes on many different subjects such as dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. He is most famous for his concepts of psychological archetypes and the collective unconscious.

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him.”

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain was a man of many talents. He was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer of many famous books and short stories.

“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Mahatma Gandhi was an extraordinary man. He was as Indian philosopher internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

“There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.”

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

“We must become the change we want to see.”

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau was an author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, critic and philosopher. He was also a lifelong abolitionist.

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

T. S. Eliot was a famous poet, dramatist and literary critic. Probably his most famous poem is The Waste Land, which I recommend everyone read.

“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”

“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be an absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do the harm. But the harm does not interest them.”

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”

Note: Most of the quotations were obtained by permission and credited article Good Quotations by Famous People. His link is http://www.cs . Virginia.edu/robins/quotes.html.