Sunday, March 20, 2011

Quotes

"Plan: to bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result."
Ambrose Bierce

"The way to hit the nail once is to hit the horseshoe a hundred times."
Miguel de Unamuno

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleón I

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Oliver Goldsmith

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt

"If you fall down seven times, get up eight times."
Chinese proverb

"Dare to think!"
Immanuel Kant

"Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous."
Confucio

"Never walk the beaten track, because it will only take you where others have already been."
Alexander Graham Bell

"There are always opportunities for those who know where to look."
Tomás Pascual Sanz

"Small opportunities are at the origin of great enterprises."
Demóstenes

"Works are never finished, they are abandoned."
Paul Ambroise Valéry

"A work is half finished when one begins it well."
Séneca

"Only ideas can save entire races."
Balzac

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Rivarol

"An uncivilized man has nothing but emotions; a civilized man has emotions and ideas."
Balzac

"An idea is a meteorite."
Víctor Hugo

"A fixed idea seems a great idea, not because it is great but because it fills an entire brain."
Jacinto Benavente

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw

"The interest that blinds some, enlightens others."
François de La Rochefoucauld

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uniterested person."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds are interested in the ordinary."
Victor Hugo

"It is while attempting the impossible that one achieves what is possible."
Henri Barbusse

"All things are impossible while they seem to be so."
Concepción Arenal

"Since they did not know it was impossible, they did it."
Anonymous

"For the possible to emerge, one must repeatedly attempt the impossible."
Hermann Hesse

"Being inventive is not enough; what is most important is to apply your inventiveness well."
René Descartes

"Imagination is the voice of daring."
Henry Miller

"I disagree with your ideas, but I defend your sacred right to express them."
Voltaire

"Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes them."
Joseph Joubert

"Knowing is not enough, one must also apply one's knowledge. Wanting is not enough, one must also act."
Goethe

"Humanity has learnt less from right ideas than from bad experience."
Hjalmar Schacht

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can imagine it, you can create it."
Albert Einstein

"If you fall seven times, get up eight times."
Chinese proverb

"I have no special talents, but I am profoundly curious."
Albert Einstein

"Many scientists were not happy with the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation."
Stephen Hawking

"Nobody knows what he is capable of until he tries."
Publio Siro
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