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Paul Dirac photo

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.”

Paul Dirac (1902–1984) theoretical physicist

As quoted in The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (2009) by Graham Farmelo, p. 435
Contesto: If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

Mikhail Lermontov photo

“Women love only those whom they do not know!”

Mikhail Lermontov libro Un eroe del nostro tempo

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

Mikhail Lermontov photo
Mahatma Gandhi photo

“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Basic Education (1951) p. 89
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Contesto: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Randy Pausch photo
Herodotus photo
Jean Cocteau photo
H.L. Mencken photo

“A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Contesto: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo
Albert Schweitzer photo
Benjamin Franklin photo

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Joanne K. Rowling photo
Jacque Fresco photo
Max Planck photo

“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

Variante: Science advances one funeral at a time.

Benjamin Disraeli photo

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Khalil Gibran photo
Franz Liszt photo
Confucius photo
Daisaku Ikeda photo
Barack Obama photo
Sojourner Truth photo

“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”

Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury photo

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath
Albert Einstein photo
A.A. Milne photo
Douglas Adams photo
Arthur Rubinstein photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
George Orwell photo
George Orwell photo

“But it takes a war to make map-reading popular.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Origine: "As I Please," Tribune (11 February 1944)

Audrey Hepburn photo
Pavel Durov photo

“Every one of us is going to die eventually, but we as a species will stick around for a while. That’s why I think accumulating money, fame or power is irrelevant. Serving humanity is the only thing that really matters in the long run.”

Pavel Durov (1984) Russian entrepreneur

" Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure https://telegra.ph/Why-WhatsApp-Will-Never-Be-Secure-05-15" 2019-05-15
In reference to his expatriation from Russia after refusing to breach the privacy of VK users for the government

Teal Swan photo
Erich Maria Remarque photo

“They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.”
Per me valgono più della vita, queste voci, valgono più della maternità e più della paura; sono le più forti, la cosa più rassicurante che ci sia ovunque. Sono le voci dei miei compagni.

Erich Maria Remarque libro Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale

Origine: All Quiet on the Western Front

Oscar Wilde photo
Robert Fulghum photo

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

As quoted in Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden (2003) by Bonita Jean Zimmer, p. 182

Terry Pratchett photo

“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Pratchett is credited as author of this, as quoted in Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (2007) by Dusty Rainbolt, p. 7, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul : What I Learned from the Cat (2009) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
Quote attributed to unknown author, in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats : And the People Who Love Them (2004) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, p. 1
General sources
Variante: In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods. They have never forgotten this.

Charles Bukowski photo
Henry James photo

“Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.”

Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.

James Frey photo

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

James Frey libro L'ultimo testamento della sacra Bibbia

Origine: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

George Sand photo

“We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.”
Non possiamo strappare una sola pagina dalla nostra vita, ma possiamo gettare l'intero libro nel fuoco.

George Sand libro Mauprat

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.
Origine: Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121

Bruce Lee photo

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
C.G. Jung photo

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

C.G. Jung libro Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Variante: ‎"... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Origine: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 326

Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo
Oscar Wilde photo

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Variante: I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Terry Pratchett photo

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Origine: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Colette photo

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
I nostri compagni perfetti non hanno mai meno di quattro piedi.

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Charles Darwin photo

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

Origine: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

Charles Bukowski photo

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
A volte devi solo fare pipì nel lavandino.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
George Carlin photo

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Origine: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

Johnny Depp photo
Bob Dylan photo

“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet

Albert Einstein photo
Georgia O'Keeffe photo

“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist

O'Keeffe's contribution (1939) to the exhibition catalogue of the show An American place (1944)
1930 - 1950
Origine: Georgia O'Keeffe
Contesto: A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower - the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower — lean forward to smell it — maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking — or give it to someone to please them. Still — in a way — nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small — we haven't time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time... So I said to myself — I'll paint what I see — what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it — I will make even busy New-Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers... Well — I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower — and I don't.

Hannah Arendt photo
Milan Kundera photo

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

Milan Kundera libro L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere

Origine: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Ernest Hemingway photo

“Never confuse movement with action.”
Mai confondere il movimento con l'azione.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

As quoted by Marlene Dietrich, who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Variante: Never mistake motion for action.

Helen Keller photo

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
Non potremmo imparare mai ad essere coraggiosi e pazienti, se ci fosse solo gioia al mondo.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

Friedrich Nietzsche libro Così parlò Zarathustra

Variante: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Origine: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Aristotle photo

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
George Orwell photo
Marcus Tullius Cicero photo
Leonard Cohen photo

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Origine: Song Paper Thin Hotel

Margaret Mead photo

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Origine: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657 note: 1940s, Male and Female (1949)

Arthur C. Clarke photo

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

IRC discussion at Scifi.com (1 November 1996) http://web.archive.org/web/20021201214228/http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/aclarke.txt with Clarke and Gentry Lee
1990s

Emile Zola photo

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!”
Mi disturba di più trovare uomini di bassa morale, ingiusti o egoisti che vedere scimmie maliziose, lupi selvaggi, o l'avvoltoio vorace

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Writers on Writing‎ (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variante: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Will Durant photo

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Philosophy

Variante: We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Origine: The Story of Philosophy (1926), p. 87. The quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7.
Contesto: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'.

Bob Marley photo

“My feet is my only carriage.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Marcus Aurelius photo

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Tutto ciò che sentiamo è un'opinione, non un fatto. Tutto ciò che vediamo è una prospettiva, non la verità.

Marcus Aurelius libro Meditations

Misattributed
Origine: Cited as being from The Meditations. This quote does not exist there; although there are several other statements about everything being an opinion, none of these are connected to a sentence about perspectives.

William Blake photo

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
Lo stolto non vede un albero allo stesso modo del saggio.

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Abraham Lincoln photo

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
Tatto: la capacità di descrivere gli altri nel modo in cui loro vedono se stessi.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
John Steinbeck photo

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Variante: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Origine: East of Eden

William Shakespeare photo

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Origine: King Henry VI, Part 3

Alfred Adler photo

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
Henny Youngman photo
Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
I giovani belli sono incidenti di natura, ma gli anziani belli sono opere d’arte.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

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