Inspirational Sayings

523 sayings found from 523 authors

The human mind is in a state of perpetual oscillation between the actual and the possible.

— James Clerk Maxwell Unknown
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I am a Christian. I believe in the Trinity.

— Johannes Kepler 1599
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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

— Philip K. Dick 1978
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

— Leonardo da Vinci c. 1500s
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The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

— Alexander Graham Bell Unknown
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

— Benjamin Franklin 1732
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I have been called a charlatan, a madman, and a dreamer, but I have always pursued the truth.

— Dmitri Mendeleev Undated
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we *can* imagine.

— Werner Heisenberg Undated (likely post-1927)
Art & Creativity

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

— Abraham Unknown
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

— Sappho c. 7th-6th Century BCE
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The world is like a great empty dream.

— Li Bai c. 701-762 CE
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Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart.

— Du Fu c. 757 CE
Art & Creativity

Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

— Murasaki Shikibu c. 1000-1012 CE
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The highest purpose of a man is to serve humanity.

— Max Planck Unknown
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

— Niels Bohr Approx. 1920s-1930s
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The world is a dream, and we are the dreamers.

— Erwin Schrodinger Unknown
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

— Marie Curie 1913
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.

— Richard Feynman Unknown
Art & Creativity

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

— Stephen Hawking Unknown
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The art of concluding from experience and observation consists in evaluating probabilities.

— Antoine Lavoisier 1770s
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