Quotes by Famous People 名人語錄

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't"
- Erica Jong (1942-)

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them."
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. The always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
-Ellen DeGeneres

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali

That's one step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
-Neil Armstrong ( stepping on to the Moon, July 31, 1969)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-The Apocrypha, 6:16

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
-Saint Augustine (354-430)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart."
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
-Grandma Moses (1860-1961)

"You are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
-Dalai Lama (1935 -)

"We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same."
-Anne Frank (1929-1945)

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha (536 B.C.-483 B.C.)

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 -)

"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 -)

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"As a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)

"Love is doing small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go,and it makes the end so easy."
-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

\We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
-Hegel

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
-Socrates

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-M.K. Gandhi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-Zig Ziglar