"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

Newton, Sir Isaac | Work, Hard | 4 bookmarks

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert | Difficulties | 24 bookmarks

"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert | Education | 11 bookmarks

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert | Endurance | 7 bookmarks

"In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny."

Einstein, Albert | Government | 2 bookmarks

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert | Heart | 7 bookmarks

"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 | Imagination | 13 bookmarks

"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons."

Bhagavad Gita | Appearance | 5 bookmarks

"Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature."

Bhagavad Gita | Army and Navy | 2 bookmarks

"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."

Bhagavad Gita | Mediation | 3 bookmarks