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Morarji Desai: Self-help must precede...

Morarji Desai: Self-help must precede...

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help...

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Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...

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Oscar Wilde: The value of...

Oscar Wilde: The value of...

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses...

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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by...

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Edmond Rostand: My pessimism goes...

Edmond Rostand: My pessimism goes...

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

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Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used...

Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used...

Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may...

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Arthur C Clarke: We have to...

Arthur C Clarke: We have to...

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the...

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Martin H Fischer: A conclusion is...

Martin H Fischer: A conclusion is...

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Source: Fischerisms, by...

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Auguste Rodin: Nothing is a...

Auguste Rodin: Nothing is a...

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Source: In The...

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Peter Nivio Zarlenga: What is a...

Peter Nivio Zarlenga: What is a...

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what...

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Isaac Newton: This most beautiful...

Isaac Newton: This most beautiful...

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

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are...

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Edmund Hillary: There is precious...

Edmund Hillary: There is precious...

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Source: In The...

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Charles Darwin: Believing as I...

Charles Darwin: Believing as I...

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an...

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John Muir: When one tugs...

John Muir: When one tugs...

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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Eugene Wigner: Physics is becoming...

Eugene Wigner: Physics is becoming...

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It takes so long...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: In some sort...

J Robert Oppenheimer: In some sort...

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have...

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Niels Bohr: Anyone who is...

Niels Bohr: Anyone who is...

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

Source: From...

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Andy Warhol: I'm a deeply...

Andy Warhol: I'm a deeply...

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone,...

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James McNeill Whistler: An artist's career...

James McNeill Whistler: An artist's career...

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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