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Famous Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi?

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Mahatma applied non-violence struggle to British first in 1914 in South Africa, is now used worldwide. 

 

Famous Quotes of Mahatma Gandhi 

  1. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
  2. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
  3. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
  4. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
  5. A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
  6. A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
  7. A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
  8. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
  9. A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
  10. A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
  11. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
  12. Action expresses priorities. 
  13. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
  14. All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
  15. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. 
  16. Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
  17. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
  18. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
  19. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
  20. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
  21. An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
  22. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
  23. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
  24. Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
  25. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
  26. Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
  27. But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
  28. Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
  29. Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
  30. Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
  31. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
  32. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
  33. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
  34. Each one prays to God according to his own light.
  35. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
  36. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
  37. Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
  38. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
  39. Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
  40. Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
  41. Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
  42. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
  43. For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
  44. Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
  45. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
  46. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
  47. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
  48. God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
  49. God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
  50. God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
  51. God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
  52. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
  53. He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
  54. Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
  55. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
  56. I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
  57. I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
  58. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
  59. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
  60. I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
  61. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
  62. I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
  63. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
  64. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
  65. I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
  66. I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
  67. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
  68. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
  69. I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
  70. I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
  71. I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
  72. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
  73. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
  74. I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
  75. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
  76. I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
  77. I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
  78. I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
  79. I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
  80. I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
  81. If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
  82. If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
  83. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
  84. If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
  85. If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
  86. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
  87. In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
  88. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
  89. Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
  90. Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
  91. Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
  92. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
  93. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
  94. Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
  95. It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. 
  96. It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
  97. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
  98. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
  99. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
  100. It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
  101. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
  102. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
  103. It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?  
  104. Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
  105. Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
  106. Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
  107. Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
  108. Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
  109. Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
  110. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
  111. Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
  112. Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
  113. Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
  114. Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
  115. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
  116. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
  117. Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
  118. Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
  119. Morality is contraband in war.
  120. Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
  121. Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
  122. My life is my message.
  123. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
  124. My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
  125. Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
  126. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
  127. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
  128. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
  129. Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
  130. Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
  131. Non-violence is the article of faith.
  132. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
  133. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
  134. Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
  135. Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
  136. One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
  137. Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
  138. Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
  139. Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
  140. Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
  141. Peace is its own reward.
  142. Poverty is the worst form of violence.
  143. Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
  144. Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
  145. Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
  146. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
  147. Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
  148. Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
  149. Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
  150. Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
  151. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
  152. Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
  153. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
  154. Self-respect knows no considerations.
  155. Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
  156. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
  157. Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
  158. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
  159. That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
  160. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
  161. The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
  162. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
  163. The good man is the friend of all living things.
  164. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
  165. The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
  166. The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
  167. The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
  168. The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
  169. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
  170. The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
  171. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
  172. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
  173. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
  174. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
  175. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
  176. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
  177. There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
  178. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
  179. There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
  180. There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
  181. Those who know how to think need no teachers.
  182. Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
  183. Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
  184. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
  185. To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
  186. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
  187. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
  188. Truth never damages a cause that is just.
  189. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
  190. Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
  191. Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
  192. Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
  193. We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
  194. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
  195. We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
  196. We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
  197. We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
  198. We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
  199. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? 
  200. What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
  201. What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
  202. Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
  203. When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
  204. When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
  205. Where love is, there God is also.
  206. Where there is love there is life.
  207. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
  208. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  209. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
posted Jan 30, 2016 by Salil Agrawal

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The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
                  

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
                  

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
                  

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
                  

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
                  

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
                  

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
                  

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
                  

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
                  

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
                  

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
                  

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.
                  

I need to keep working on myself for a while.
                  

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
                  

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
                  

A lot of truth is said in jest.
                  

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me
                  

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
                  

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
                  

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
                  

Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
                  

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
                  

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything
                  

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.
                  

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
                  

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
                  

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
                  

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.
                  

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
                  

Rap was my drug.
                  

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
                  

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
                  

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
                  

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
                  

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
                  

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
                  

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
 

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

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
 

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
 

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
       

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
       

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
       

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
       

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
       

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
       

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
       

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
       

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
       

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
       

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
       

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
       

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
       

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
       

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
       

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
       

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr.
       

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
       

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
       

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
       

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age" and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".

QUOTES -

  1. The secret of getting ahead is getting started
  2. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
  3. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
  4. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
  5. I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
  6. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
  7. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  8. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
  9. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
  10. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
  11. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
  12. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
  13. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
  14. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
  15. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
  16. If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
  17. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

 

  • However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
               
  • Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
               
  • Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
               
  • I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
               
  • Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
               
  • People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
               
  • We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
               
  • Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
               
  • My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
               
  • We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
               
  • In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. 
               
  • One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
               
  • I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
               
  • Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
               
  • Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
               
  • With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
               
  • If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not. Stephen Hawking
               
  • We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
               
  • People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
               
  • The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
               
  • No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. 
               
  • Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
               
  • Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
               
  • Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
               
  • I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
               
  • I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
               
  • My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
               
  • Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
               
  • 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.
               
  • Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
               
  • I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
          
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Paul William Walker IV was a well Known American actor.He began his career with guest-apperances in many shows like The Young and the Restless and Touched by an Angel.Paul Wallker gained prominence with his Breakout roles in coming of ages,She’s all that and Varsity Blues(1999).The fast and The furious(2001) was the movie which made Walker an International star,he played the role of  Brain O’Connor and would go on to play this role for next 6 installments.

In middle of shooting for Furious 7,Paul Walker died in a single-vehicle collision on November 30,2013.

 

Paul walker  “QUOTES”

“If one day the speed kills me, don't cry. Because I was smiling.”

“ Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast    gangster, you know?”

 “I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.”

“I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.”

“My philosophy is: If you can't have fun, there's no sense in doing it.”

“I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.”

“My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day.”

 “I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.”

“It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.”

 “If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.”

“ Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.“
 

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 Famous Quotes by Albert Einstein

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” 

“Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.” 

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” 

“The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.” 

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”

“You'll just never know...so many emotions I choose not to show..”

“I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? Cosmic” 

“one who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic. I believe he should speak out freely on what he sees and feels, for by so doing he may perhaps prove himself useful.” 

“As far as our propositions are certain, they do not say anything about reality, and as far as they do say anything about reality, they are not
certain"

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“imagination is more important than knowledge” 

“The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.” 

“In every true searcher of Nature
there is a kind of religious reverence” 

“be the best loved who have contributed most to” 

“Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits” 

“the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.” 

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed”

“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?” 

“I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.” 

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know” 

“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.” 

“Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.”

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library” 

“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis”

“Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.” 

“People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we are born.” 

“If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.”

“A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.”

“For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.”

“True genius never says he know what he is doing” 

“The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.” 

“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.”

“It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.”

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

“A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.” 

“Time has no independent existence apart from the
order of events by which we measure it.” 

“Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.” 

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” 

“There can be no positive result through negative attitude. Think positive. Live positive.”

“Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.” 

“A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.”

“Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.”

“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.” 

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.” 

“For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.” 

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

“Look to the stars and from them learn.” 

“I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.” 

“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”

“You can't blame gravity for falling in love” 

“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change.” 

“The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution” 

 

  

There are many more I will keep editing if I find more

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Gautama Buddha, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. Even after 2500 years, almost all of his teaching still makes sense and few are even more relevent. In this article I tried to compile some of his famous quotes from various sources - 

Famous Quotes 

  1. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
  2. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
  3. No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
  4. Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
  5. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  
  6. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.  
  7. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.  
  8. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. 
  9. What we think, we become.  
  10. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. 
  11. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. 
  12. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. 
  13. Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. 
  14. To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. 
  15. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. 
  16. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. 
  17. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. 
  18. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. 
  19. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. 
  20. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. 
  21. To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. 
  22. It is better to travel well than to arrive. 
  23. With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. 
  24. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. 
  25. He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. 
  26. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. 
  27. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. 
  28. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. 
  29. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. 
  30. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. 
  31. I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. 
  32. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. 
  33. Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood. 
  34. The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. 
  35. When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. 
  36. Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. 
  37. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. 
  38. Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. 
  39. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. 
  40. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
  41. Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
  42. Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
  43. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
  44. A jug fills drop by drop.
  45. Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
  46. All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
  47. The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
  48. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
  49. Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
  50. Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
  51. However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
  52. Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
  53. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
  54. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
  55. A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
  56. Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
  57. He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.
  58. The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
  59. I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.
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