"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"

Einstein, Albert on vegetarianism
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on questions
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on humankind
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

Einstein, Albert on cooperation
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"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."

Einstein, Albert on conformity
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"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."

Einstein, Albert on world
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"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."

Einstein, Albert on class
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"One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."

Einstein, Albert on weather
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"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere."

Einstein, Albert on visualization
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"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery."

Smiles, Samuel on mistakes
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds."

Meynell, Alice on crowds   

"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."

Mabie, Hamilton on solitude
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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime."

Keats, John on solitude
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"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness."

Keats, John on family   

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

Douglas, Norman on creativity   

"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."

Rostand, Jean on ideals and idealism   

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Rostand, Jean on beauty   

"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hypocrisy
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"A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy."

Milton, John on heresy   

"Lords are lordliest in their wine."

Milton, John on aristocracy   

"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."

Channing, William Ellery on smile   

"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."

Ball, Lucille on knowledge
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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

Wiesel, Elie on racism
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"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."

Rostand, Jean on science   

"People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor."

Douglas, Norman on reform   

"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."

Pirsig, Robert M. on truth   

"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Belafonte, Harry on censorship
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"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."

Gordimer, Nadine on censorship   

"Charm is a product of the unexpected."

Marti, Jose on charm
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"Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful."

Unknown, Source on charm
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"A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."

Cartland, Barbara on wives
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"Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated."

Sade, Marquis De on hope
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