25 Great Quotes from Famous Intellectuals, Philosophers & Scientists - Part 1
25 Inspirational Quotes from Bertrand Russell, Victor Hugo, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Newton, Kahlil Gibran, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Niccolo Machiavelli, Soren Kierkegaard, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
~ AristotleTo avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
~ AristotleTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
~ Arthur SchopenhauerAll truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
~ Arthur SchopenhauerCompassion is the basis of morality.
~ Arthur SchopenhauerDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
~ Bertrand RussellBeauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
~ David HumeI'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
~ Friedrich NietzscheWhoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
~ Friedrich NietzscheYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
~ HeraclitusWe are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
~ Immanuel KantMen build too many walls and not enough bridges.
~ Isaac NewtonWhat we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
~ Isaac NewtonIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
~ Isaac NewtonIf you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
~ Kahlil GibranThe first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
~ Niccolo MachiavelliDo not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
~ PlatoMost people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund FreudEducation is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
~ SocratesI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
~ SocratesThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~ Soren KierkegaardThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
~ Soren KierkegaardJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
~ Voltaire