“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Robert Fulghum libro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Origine: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Martin Svoboda
Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Old Man's Advice to Youth: "Never Lose a Holy Curiosity," http://books.google.com/books?id=dlYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Life%2C%202%20May%201955&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=Life,%202%20May%201955&f=false LIFE magazine (2 May 1955) statement to William Miller, p. 64. <br class="br">1950s <br class="br">Contesto: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variante: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variante: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variante: Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein by his colleague Léopold Infeld in his book Quest: An Autobiography (1949), p. 291 http://books.google.com/books?id=fsvXYpOSowkC&q=%22garbage+man%22#v=snippet&q=%22garbage%20man%22&f=false <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variante: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted in Journal of France and Germany (1942–1944) by Gilbert Fowler White, in excerpt published in Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White (2006) by Robert E. Hinshaw, p. 62. From the context http://books.google.com/books?id=_2qfZRp9SeEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false it seems that White did not specify whether he had heard Einstein himself say this or whether he was repeating a quote that had been passed along by someone else, so without a primary source the validity of this quote should be considered questionable.<br>Some have argued that elsewhere Einstein defined a "miracle" as a type of event he did not believe was possible—Einstein on Religion by Max Jammer (1999) quotes on p. 89 from a 1931 conversation Einstein had with David Reichinstein, where Reichinstein brought up philosopher Arthur Liebert's argument that the indeterminism of quantum mechanics might allow for the possibility of miracles, and Einstein replied that Liebert's argument dealt "with a domain in which lawful rationality [determinism] does not exist. A 'miracle,' however, is an exception from lawfulness; hence, there where lawfulness does not exist, also its exception, i.e., a miracle, cannot exist." ("Dort, wo eine Gesetzmässigkeit nicht vorhanden ist, kann auch ihre Ausnahme, d.h. ein Wunder, nicht existieren." D. Reichenstein, Die Religion der Gebildeten (1941), p. 21). However, it is clear from the context that Einstein was stating only that miracles cannot exist in a domain (quantum mechanics) where lawful rationality does not exist. He did not claim that miracles could never exist in any domain. Indeed, Einstein clearly believed, as seen in many quotations above, that the universe was comprehensible and rational, but he also described this characteristic of the universe as a "miracle". In another example, he is quoted as claiming belief in a God, "Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world." <br class="br">As quoted in From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter (1993) by David T. Dellinger, p. 418 <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variante: 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. <br class="br">Variante: 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.
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
1950s
Variante: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
L'égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait. <br class="br"> La Duchesse de Langeais http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Duchesse_de_Langeais (1834), translated by Ellen Marriage, part II.
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'épouvantable dans le suicide.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
On porte encore moins facilement la joie excessive que la peine la plus lourde.
Part II, ch. L
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Qui dépense trop n’est jamais riche. <br class="br"> La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_chat-qui-pelote [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] (1830), translated by Clara Bell
“Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.”
Honoré de Balzac libro Séraphîta
Origine: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
La solitude est certainement une belle chose, mais il y a plaisir d'avoir quelqu'un qui sache répondre, à qui on puisse dire de temps en temps, que c'est un belle chose. (Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.) —Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Dissertations chrétiennes et morales (1665), XVIII: "Les plaisirs de la vie retirée".
Misattributed
“When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Quand le despotisme est dans les lois, la liberté se trouve dans les mœurs, et vice versa.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman