The Word

"Man arafa nafsahu fa qad arafa rabbahu" (Prophet Muhammad PBUH)  - 'One who realizes his own self realizes His (Lord) '

Wisdom

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." - Albert Einstein

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

"We are, in fact, the moral backbone of the nation: brights take their
civic duties seriously precisely because they don't trust God to save
humanity from its follies." -- Daniel C. Dennett

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."  - Sun Tzu

"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Success

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -Albert Einstein

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)

"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."- Goethe (1749-1832)

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin

"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Tragedy

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"People demand freedom of speech, to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"A clever man commits no minor blunders." - Goethe (1749-1832)

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire (1694-1778)

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"The average person thinks he isn't."- Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency." - Lewis Perelman

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

Computers

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.