Tuesday, January 27, 2009

William Shakespeare



A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare


A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
-William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
-William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
-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

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

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-William Shakespeare



Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
-William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
-William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
-William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
-William Shakespeare


How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
-William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
-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

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 were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
-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


J Krishnamurthi

Albert Einstein



A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein


A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein


A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein


A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein



All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein


All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein


All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein


An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein


Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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


Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein


Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein


Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein


As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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


Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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


Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein


Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein


Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein


Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein


Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein


Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-Albert Einstein


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-Albert Einstein


Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
-Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-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

Force always attracts men of low morality.
-Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.
-Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.
-Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
-Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-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

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
-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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
-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

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

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

I have just got a new theory of eternity.
-Albert Einstein



Adolf Hitler






All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
-Adolf Hitler

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
-Adolf Hitler

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
-Adolf Hitler

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
-Adolf Hitler

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
-Adolf Hitler

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
-Adolf Hitler

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
-Adolf Hitler

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
-Adolf Hitler

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
-Adolf Hitler

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
-Adolf Hitler

Great liars are also great magicians.
-Adolf Hitler

Hate is more lasting than dislike.
-Adolf Hitler

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
-Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
-Adolf Hitler

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
-Adolf Hitler

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
-Adolf Hitler

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
-Adolf Hitler

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
-Adolf Hitler

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
-Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
-Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
-Adolf Hitler

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler

It is not truth that matters, but victory.
-Adolf Hitler

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
-Adolf Hitler

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
-Adolf Hitler

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
-Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
-Adolf Hitler

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
-Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
-Adolf Hitler

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
-Adolf Hitler

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
-Adolf Hitler

The day of individual happiness has passed.
-Adolf Hitler

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
-Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
-Adolf Hitler

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
-Adolf Hitler

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
-Adolf Hitler

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
-Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
-Adolf Hitler

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
-Adolf Hitler

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
-Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
-Adolf Hitler

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
-Adolf Hitler

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
-Adolf Hitler

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
-Adolf Hitler

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
-Adolf Hitler





Oliver Goldsmith