Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
