quotes

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, he can rob the world!

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Prosperity is as aptly measured in love, friendship, and personal fulfillment as in gold or fame.

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

He who hesitates is lost.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Nothing stresses me out, except seeking the approval of my inferiors.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Never in any case say "I have lost..." such a thing, but "I have returned it."

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

I used to think that I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, There are so many people in the world, There must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there, thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that yes, it's true I'm here. And I'm just as strange as you.

Be careful in casting out your devil, ‘lest you cast out the best thing about you.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Get clear, solid, irrefutable data on what's happening to me. I've always prided myself on my ability to outrun my own insanity. A very controlled experiment.

There are two things you need to succeed in life, honesty & sincerity. Once you can fake those you've got it made.

He’s one of those who knows that life is just a leap of faith, Spread your arms and hold you breath always trust your cape.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Nothing endures but change.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Always thought I was someone, turned out I was wrong.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

We are meaning-seeking creatures, and unlike other animals, fall very easily into despair if we cannot find significance and value in our lives.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

My memory of you is better than you.

You’re much too lovely to be truly loved.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Less is more.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

No man is a complete mystery, except to himself

In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn't do than what you did.

Confusion is always the most honest response.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose, a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Boredom sets into the boring mind.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

To seek the high concord, a man looks not deeper within – he reaches farther out.

Only difference between a good meal and a bad meal is about four hours.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

A man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away, the more he had.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever lengthening, ever ascending, ever improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something.

"Woman" is such a subject, no matter now much you study, it is perfectly fresh

We all got holes to fill, And them holes are all that's real, Some fall on you like a storm, Sometimes you dig your own, The choice is yours to make, Time is yours to take

What a life a mess can be.

I've been known to shout, about things I know nothing about!

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Begin to be now, what you will be hereafter.

(A man's) observations and curiosity, they make and remake him. Maybe the road could provide a therapy through observation of the ordinary and obvious, a means whereby the outer eye opens an inner one.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject....for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.