Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Learning   
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Subject:
Character   
Life   
Mankind   
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Evil   
World   
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Subject:
Enemy   
Truth   
Power   
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Subject:
Life   
Reality   
Curiosity   
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Subject:
Beauty   
Truth   
Kindness   
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Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Subject:
Education   
Community   
Opportunity   
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Subject:
Beauty   
Freedom   
Nature   
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
Subject:
War   
Peace   
Military   
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Subject:
Beauty   
Science   
Art   
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Subject:
Education   
Learning   
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Subject:
Life   
Truth   
Good   
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Truth   
Judgment   
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We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
Subject:
War   
Peace   
Sacrifice   
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Subject:
Education   
Curiosity   
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The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.
Subject:
Evil   
Physics   
Human Nature   
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Subject:
Confusion   
Time   
Perfection   
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
Subject:
Freedom   
Mankind   
Responsibility   
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
Courage   
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Subject:
Science   
Nature   
Mind   
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