"In the brief course of this one day lie all the verities, all the realities of your existence--the joy of living, the splendor of beauty, the glory of action." 

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.-T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")

There was never a genius without a tincture of insanity.-Aristotle

"Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is but a vision. But today, well-lived, will make every yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone, is life."

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. -Woodrow Wilson

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F.Scott Fitzgerald

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
 
Only the mind cannot be sent into exile. -Ovid

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - Jesus

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. -Charlie Brower

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common. -John Locke

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, of more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. -Jacob Bronowski

"A warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: ‘Does this path have a heart?”- Carlos Castaneda

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. 
- Chinese Proverb

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer. - Saddi

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough." - George W. Carver  

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. -Bertrand Russell

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. -Christian Morgenstern

Go deep, go far into the scheme of things, and there is mathematics everywhere. Go deeper, go nearer to the core of reality, and there is music everywhere. -Slichter, Science in a Tavern

Success is the child of audacity. -Benjamin Disraeli

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -Howard Aiken

One measure of the power of a new idea is the resistance it meets. -Leroy Jack Syrop

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. -John Kenneth Galbraith

Bitches are aggressive, assertive, domineering, strong-minded, direct, blunt, candid, hard-headed, vicious, competent, competitive, independent, stubborn, demanding, egoistic, driven, achieving, overwhelming, threatening, scary, ambitious, tough, boisterous and turbulent. A Bitch takes shit from no one. You may not like her, but you cannot ignore her. – Joreen/ sisterhood movement

EINSTEIN

• In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

• If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music.

• The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him a spinal cord would fully suffice. -Albert Einstein

The majority of businessmen are incapable of original thought because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. -David Ogilvy

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

When I’m old, I’m never going to say, I didn’t do this, or I regret that. I’m going to say, I don’t regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.
  YIELD TO TEMPTATION, IT MAY NOT PASS YOUR WAY AGAIN
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. –Heinlein

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -Kafka

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. -Siren Kierkegaard

All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning. Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam that is everything. -Henri Poincare

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. -St. Thomas Aquinas

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. - Kahlil Gibran, 'Mirrors of the Soul'

SCIENCE QUOTATIONS
Science is a flickering light in our darkness, it is but the only one we have and woe to him who would put it out. -Morris Cohen  

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course, I do not here speak of that beauty which strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities and appearances; not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has nothing to do with science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from the harmonious order of the parts and which a pure intelligence can grasp. This it is which gives body, a structure so to speak, to the iridescent appearances which flatter our senses, and without this support the beauty of these fugitive dreams would be only imperfect, because it would be vague and always fleeting. Jules Henri Poincare

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. Alan Shepherd

If government laboratories had been operating in the Stone Age we should have wonderful stone axes but no-one would have discovered metals. J.J. Thomson  

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. Georges Braque

Science can get along with talent, but art requires genius. Will Durant

Even the most brilliant scientific discoveries will in time change and perhaps grow obsolete, as new scientific manifestations emerge. But Art is eternal; for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. Graham, Martha

One thing I have learned in a long life: That all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet, it is the most precious thing we have. Albert Einstein 

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently. -Werner von Braun