General Sayings

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

I'm like a ripe stool and the world's like a gigantic anus, and we're about to let go of each other.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Why do you call her inferior, when from her, kings are born?

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you failure.

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

groped in the dark, misled by many an ignis fatuus, but nature has a weak side, if we can only find it out.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

No, I certainly do not believe in this superstition. But you know, they say that it does bring luck even if you don't believe in it!

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

People who boast about their IQ are losers.