Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Xenocrates
I have often repented of speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Robert G. Ingersoll
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Zelda Fitzgerald
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Audrey Hepburn
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
Stephen Hawking
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
William Butler Yeats
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.