Everything Quotes

In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

If youth knew; if age could.

What worries you, masters you.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

We are what we believe we are.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Well begun is half done.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.