"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."

Navratilova, Martina on commitment
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

Einstein, Albert on learning
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Einstein, Albert on gratitude
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert on self-esteem
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"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on destiny
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"After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment."

Poe, Edgar Allan on life
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."

Poe, Edgar Allan on despair   

"Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ideas
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose
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"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose   

"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on criticism
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on culture   

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on virtue   

"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on questions
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