Quotes

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."- John Locke
"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."- Richard Feynman
"Be not as one that has ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."- Marcus Aurelius
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."- Thomas Paine
"The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it."- Richard Feynman
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."- Richard Feynman
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."- Henry Brooks Adams
"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."- Virginia Woolf
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."- Lucius Seneca