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Modern science67

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We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.

Marcus Aurelius

I feel a genuine interest in the animals themselves, because they are real animals and not caricatures of men.

Helen Keller

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

John Keats

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

To those who are good, I am good; and to those who are not good, I am also good; and thus all get to be good.

Lao Tzu

History

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln

Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music.

I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Frederick Douglass

Music must never offend the ear, even in most horrendous situations, but must always be pleasing.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.

William Shakespeare

We are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.

Marcus Aurelius

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.

We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.

Louisa May Alcott

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

It will be finished when I shall have done all that I believe required to satisfy Art.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature.

The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Leonardo da Vinci

The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.

Rabindranath Tagore

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History174 quotes

Inspiration218 quotes

Science115 quotes

Wise sayings71 quotes

Animals62 quotes

Stories30 quotes

Friendship57 quotes

Inspiration

Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that's the real way to learn to understand art.

Vincent van Gogh

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls.

I am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun.

You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it; I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.

Louisa May Alcott

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with. A man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky.

Wangari Maathai

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write.

Madeleine L'Engle

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English.

L.M. Montgomery

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life.

The sun made the leaves transparent—there was a fragrance, a freshness—the birds sang. I was overcome by it.

Hans Christian Andersen

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

To those who are good, I am good; and to those who are not good, I am also good; and thus all get to be good.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds.

Antonín Dvořák

Science

A wonder of such nature I experienced as a child of 4 or 5 years, when my father showed me a compass.

Albert Einstein

Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing.

Stephen Hawking

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

I feel a genuine interest in the animals themselves, because they are real animals and not caricatures of men.

There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars.

In fact, how many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire.

I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Alexander von Humboldt

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Galileo Galilei

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Authors

Carl Sagan13 quotes

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Rachel Carson11 quotes

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Albert Einstein10 quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt9 quotes

Mahatma Gandhi9 quotes

Maya Angelou9 quotes

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Confucius8 quotes

Lao Tzu8 quotes

Marcus Aurelius8 quotes

Marie Curie8 quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson8 quotes

Amelia Earhart7 quotes

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Mother Teresa7 quotes

Stephen Hawking7 quotes

Vincent van Gogh7 quotes

William Shakespeare7 quotes

Wise sayings

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Looking at the lovely things you can see will help you to understand the lovelier things you cannot see.

Louisa May Alcott

Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

There is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

Maria Montessori

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

The most important thing is to actually think about what you do.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Simplicity is the essential, vital element of description.

Alexander von Humboldt

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity.

Leonardo da Vinci

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Benjamin Franklin

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

William Edward Hickson

Animals

Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that's the real way to learn to understand art.

Vincent van Gogh

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky.

Wangari Maathai

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

The sun made the leaves transparent—there was a fragrance, a freshness—the birds sang. I was overcome by it.

Hans Christian Andersen

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds.

Antonín Dvořák

I feel a genuine interest in the animals themselves, because they are real animals and not caricatures of men.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature.

The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Leonardo da Vinci

The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.

Rabindranath Tagore

I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature is always beautiful. We need only to understand what she shows us.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Galileo Galilei

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Dickens

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Modern science67 quotes

Historic science48 quotes

Wisdom43 quotes

Perseverance39 quotes

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Nature18 quotes

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Courage5 quotes

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Curiosity4 quotes

Individuality4 quotes

Stories

Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write.

Madeleine L'Engle

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English.

L.M. Montgomery

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances.

William Shakespeare

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Hans Christian Andersen

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.

Stories have to end. It's what gives them meaning.Neil Gaiman

Reading was the only Amusement I allow'd myself.

Benjamin Franklin

You can't judge a book by its cover.English proverb

Books, the children of the brain.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister.

Rudyard Kipling

Friendship

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I give an expression of care every day to each child to help him realize that he is unique.

To those who are good, I am good; and to those who are not good, I am also good; and thus all get to be good.

I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people.

I have many beautiful flowers, but the children are the most beautiful flowers of all.

I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.

William Shakespeare

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

Charles Dickens

Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy.

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.

Rabindranath Tagore

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then, or bear with them.

Marcus Aurelius

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

My friends are my 'estate.' Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Emily Dickinson

Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.

L.M. Montgomery

There is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.

Art

Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that's the real way to learn to understand art.

Vincent van Gogh

I am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun.

Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music.

If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Music must never offend the ear, even in most horrendous situations, but must always be pleasing.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English.

L.M. Montgomery

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds.

Antonín Dvořák

Why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

Leonard Bernstein

I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people.

If Poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Oh, how beautiful music is; so often it is my consolation when I would like to cry.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big.

Georgia O'Keeffe

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth.

Alexander Graham Bell

Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Play

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play.

The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.

Rabindranath Tagore

I sat there for a long, long time, feeling like a fairy on a rosy cloud.

Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play.

I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.

The main ingredient of stardom, is the rest of the team.

We are on the field doing what we love to do.

Roberto Clemente

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.English proverb

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

It ain't over till it's over.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, that is the greatest gift.

I'm proud of myself for the way I pushed through and even learned that dismount.

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Luz Long.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Wisdom

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls.

Looking at the lovely things you can see will help you to understand the lovelier things you cannot see.

Louisa May Alcott

Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play.

We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads — but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Vincent van Gogh

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Our mission as teachers is to show the right way to those who come after us.

Antonín Dvořák

In the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Galileo Galilei

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent.

Perseverance

I am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun.

You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it; I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.

Louisa May Alcott

I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Frederick Douglass

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

It will be finished when I shall have done all that I believe required to satisfy Art.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.

In fact, how many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

Maria Montessori

The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.

If you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

That which is bitter passes away, and the whole world appears in sunlight.

Hans Christian Andersen

You cannot study anything persistently for years without becoming learned.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

So if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

Stephen Hawking