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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

- Harold B. Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

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It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

- Edward Lear Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

- Lao Tzu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

- Walter Savage Landor Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone

- Charles Lamb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired Pay your debts, dont borrow money, nor twist your kittens neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

- Charles Lamb Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

- Joseph Louis LaGrange Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

said about the chemist Lavoisier It took the mob only a moment to remove his head a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

- Joseph Louis LaGrange Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We dont know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all we don't know its history, and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity. We merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it, as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

- Milan Kundera Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The difference between art and science is that science is what people understand well enough to explain to a computer. All else is art.

- Donald Knuth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance.... Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair.... An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely thisnot to be conscious of oneself as spiritis despair, which is spiritlessness....

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When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world no matter how imperfect becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

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One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions that just so happens such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

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The important thing for government is not to do things which individuals are doing already and to do them a little better or a little worse but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

- John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

During a rehearsal of Beethovens Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. 'Please ... please Dont do this You see, gentlemen, it isnt me you should applaud. Its Beethoven'

- James Keller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the athletic phenomenon of all time, won the British women's golf tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before 'Oh, shes an automatic champion, a natural athlete.' When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

- Edward Kasner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

- Immanuel Kant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

- Carl Gustav Jung Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar, doth it too dearly buy.

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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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