Everything Quotes

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Friends are thieves of time.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.

If I'm not in love, if I'm not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.