"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance"

-Confucius

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time"

-T.S. Elliot

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..."

-Albert Einstein

"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them."

-Alexander Graham Bell

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging of an uncompleted task."

-William James

"Habit is habit, and not to be

flung out of the window

by any man,

but coaxed downstairs

a step at a time."

- Mark Twain

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

-H. G. Wells

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Kindness

in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates

profoundness. Kindness in giving

creates love."

- Lao-Tzu

"If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him ... he will be surrounded by grandeur."

-Henry David Thoreau

“The mind

is everything.

What you think

you become.”

-Gautama Buddha

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

-Albert Einstein

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

-Aristotle

"Poetry should be 

great and unobtrusive, 

a thing which enters into 

one's soul, 

and does not 

startle or amaze with itself, 

but with its subject."

-John Keats

"Here it is standing...
atoms with consciousness
...matter with curiosity.

Stands at the sea...
wonders at wondering... I...
a universe of atoms...
an atom in the universe."

-Richard Feynman

"I am much 

less interested in what is called 

God's word 

than in

God's deeds. 

All bibles 

are man-made."

-Thomas Edison

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

-Stephen Hawking

"The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization."

-Alexander Graham Bell

"The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him"

-Chinese proverb

"Doubt is the origin of wisdom."

-René Descartes