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Intelligence is nothing without delight.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage, the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquatedto seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

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

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.