Confucius
- The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
- The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of Heaven..
- The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it to confess your ignorance.
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Gautama Buddha
- There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.
- Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
- There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way.
- Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.
Mahatma Gandhi
- Hate the sin and not the sinner.
- If all had the same belief about all matters of religion, there would be only one religion in the world.
- I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.
- I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Albert Einstein
- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
- What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?
- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
- Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
- When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
- I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
- I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I’ll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
John Lennon
- God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
- How can I give love when I don’t know what it is I’m giving?
- I like to write about myself because I know myself.
- When I was 12, I used to think I was a genius and nobody had noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn’t, then I don’t care.