Top 50 quotes of today
As I grow to understand life less and less,
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Life's but short. You might as well be amusing.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Cynicism is humour in ill health.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
