Quotations On Medicine I

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.


My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin


The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~Plato


Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. ~C. Jeff Miller


In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. ~Martin H. Fischer


It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class. ~Author Unknown


Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ~Robert Burton


I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ~James H. Boren


A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ~Francis O'Walsh


Did God who gave us flowers and trees,
Also provide the allergies?
~E.Y. Harburg, "A Nose Is a Nose Is a Nose," 1965


I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you. ~Bill Walton


It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~Thomas More


I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription. ~Finley Peter Dunne


You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams


To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher


A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion. ~Martin H. Fischer


Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life!
~Emily Dickinson


Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ~Peter Mere Latham


In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes. ~Author Unknown


Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs. ~Jean Martin Charcot, translated from French


I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome


Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. ~Martin H. Fischer

Funny Quotes About Doctors

I am dying with the help of too many physicians. Alexander the Great (356 - 323 B.C.)

A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news - the good news is
that you are not a hypochondriac.

Honour physicians for their services, for the Lord created them;
for their gift of healing comes from the Most High and they are rewarded
by the King. .... The Lord created medicines out of the earth and the
sensible will not despise them. .... And he gave skill to human
beings that he might be glorified in his marvelous works. By them the
physician heals and takes away pain; the pharmacist makes a mixture
from them. God's works will never be finished and from him health
spreads over all the earth.My child, when you are ill, do not delay
but pray to the Lord and he will heal you. Give up your faults and
direct your hands rightly ... Then give physician his place for the
Lord created him; do not let him leave you, for you may need him.
There may come a time when recovery lies in the hands of the
physicians, for they too pray to the Lord that he grant them success
in diagnosis and in healing for the sake of preserving life.
Ecclesiasticus 38

Doctors automatically know what's wrong with you. They have a sick
sense.

"Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?"
"That's true."
"Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?" "That's true."
"Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?"
"That's true."
"What does your doctor say about all of this?"
"My doctor is dead."
George Burns

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers
merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton
Chekhov

Man has discovered that to kneel before God at least is more
dignified than to lie down before a psychiatrist. William A. Donaghy
(1909-1975)

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller


Psychotherapy conquered what is in effect the human condition by
annexing it in its entirely to the medical profession.
Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy

Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears.
The doctor said: "Don't answer!"
Henny Youngman (1906-1998)

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn.

A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a labotomy. Joan Rivers.

She got her looks from her father: He's a plastic surgeon. Groucho Marx


No-one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. Kin Hubbard


Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Dick Sharples

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. Spike Milligan

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to a strip club and watches the audience. Merv Stockwood.

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is? Paul Merton

Quotations About Doctors

The first organized attempt to mitigate the horrors of war, to prevent disease and save the lives of those engaged in military service by sanitary measures and a more careful nursing of the sick and wounded, was made by a commission appointed by the British Government during the Crimean war, to inquire into the terrible mortality from disease that attended the British army at Sebastopol, and to apply the needed remedies. It was as a part of this great work that the heroic young Englishwoman, Florence Nightingale, with her army of nurses, went to the Crimea to care for the sick and wounded soldier, to minister in hospitals, and to alleviate suffering and pain, with a selfsacrifice and devotion that has made her name a household word, wherever the English language is spoken. In the armies of France the Sisters of Charity had rendered similar services, and even ministered to the wounded on the battle field; but their labors were a work of religious charity and not an organized sanitary movement.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. - W. H. Auden

Cure the disease and kill the patient. - Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. - Enid Bagnold 1889-1981, British Novelist, Playwright

One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth. - John Berger, British Actor, Critic

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. - H. G. Bohn

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. - Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
- Steve Martin

Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. - Denis Diderot

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person. - Socrates

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. - Joe E. Lewis

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. - Walter Matthau

Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger. - David Letterman

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. - Marcel Proust

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. - Thomas Edison

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

Quotations About Nurses

Famous Nurse: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - This British pioneer in the field (who was also a mathematician) insisted on more sanitary conditions for nurses and doctors during the Crimean War, which cut the death rate of wounded soldiers by a staggering amount. Florence Nightingale was a true nursing legend whose work changed the field of medicine dramatically for the better. She was also a tireless advocate for the advancement of women nurses and physicians.

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes. ~Author Unknown


Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ~Dag Hammarskjold


Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ~Gerhard Kocher


Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. ~Florence Nightingale


Nurses can take the pressure. ~Author Unknown


If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse. ~Finley Peter Dunne


The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.... ~William Osler


Nurses are I.V. leaguers. ~Author Unknown


After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~W.C. Fields


Nurses are patient people. ~Author Unknown


You might be a nurse if you firmly believe that "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis. ~Author Unknown


Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~Gary Veale


If love can't cure it, nurses can. ~Author Unknown


Confucius say: "Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient." ~Author Unknown


During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones

Quotations By Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910): A pioneer in the nursing field, she established herself as a competent nursing administrator during the Crimean War, where her insistence on sanitary conditions cut the death rate considerably. She continued to advance the field in her later years, providing better health service and opportunities for women at the same time.

Florence Nightingale has remained a symbol of the nursing profession and humanitarian work.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.


And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality.


It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.


I can stand out the war with any man.


I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.


Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.


No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this -- 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.


For what is Mysticism? Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.


You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Abraham Lincoln Quotations II

Abraham Lincoln on his death bed

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal.


If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.


I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided.


A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.


I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have
no slave.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable-- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to eat their bread, leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated. This was not an insupportable evil to the working bees, so long as the class of drones remained very small. But now, especially in these free States, nearly all are educated--quite too nearly all, to leave the labor of the uneducated, in any wise adequate to the support of the whole. It follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor. Otherwise, education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil. No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

Abraham Lincoln Quotations I

The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln(1861-1865).

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap -- let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; -- let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a 'drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind, all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail!

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or any denomination of Christians in particular.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Mr. Clay's lack of a more perfect early education, however it may be regretted generally, teaches at least one profitable lesson; it teaches that in this country, one can scarcely be so poor, but that, if he will, he can acquire sufficient education to get through the world respectably.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

A collection of Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotations II

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) German-born Swiss American physicist.


Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

He who joyfully marches to the music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein Quotations I

Albert Einstein(1879-1955) contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings, admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of art and science.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

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Margaret Fuller Quotes

Margaret Fuller(1810-1850), American writer, journalist, and philosopher, was part of the Transcendentalist circle. Margaret Fuller's "conversations" encouraged the women of Boston to develop their intellectual capacities. In 1845 Margaret Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, now considered an early feminist classic. Margaret Fuller married in Italy while covering the Roman Revolution, had a child, and was drowned with her husband and daughter on their return to America in a shipwreck just off shore.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I accept the universe!

What woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely, and unimpeded to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Let it not be said, whenever there is energy or creative genius, "She has a masculine mind."

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply -- any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.

When not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that Woman was made for Man, — when such traits as these are daily forced upon the attention, can we feel that Man will always do justice to the interests of Woman? Can we think that he takes a sufficiently discerning and religious view of her office and destiny ever to do her justice, except when prompted by sentiment — accidentally or transiently?

If the negro be a soul, if the woman be a soul, apparelled in flesh, to one master only are they accountable.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is also born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

For human beings are not so constituted, that they can live without expansion; and if they do not get it one way, must another, or perish.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Humanity is not made for society, but society is made for humanity. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

The critic is the historian who records the order or creation. In vain for the maker, who knows without learning it, but not in vain for the mind of his race.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Anne Frank Quotes

Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old.

Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady of British politics, Margaret Thatcher was the longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827. Her conservative politics led to the implementation of such radically-conservative policies as the poll tax. The Falkland Islands war was fought during her tenure. When her party leadership was challenged in 1990, she resigned, later also retiring from the House of Commons.

We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. it's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

It will be years - and not in my time - before a woman will lead the party or become prime minister.

I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Quotes Of Helen Keller II

Helen Keller : Born in 1880 - Died in 1968
Helen Keller became deaf and blind when she was just a baby of 19 months. As a child she was uncontrollable and her parents enlisted the help of Anne Sullivan, her teacher. Anne Sullivan opened Helen's world by patiently teaching the young child. Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by Helen Keller

Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The best way out is always through.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Quotes Of Helen Keller I

Helen Keller, a very determined, deafblind woman ever to graduate from university. She became a role model for millions of people as a champion of social justice, a talented public speaker and an inspiration to millions around the globe. Here are some of her insightful quotations.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I can say with conviction that the struggle which evil necessitates is one of the greatest blessings. It makes us strong, patient, helpful men and women. It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcomings of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

I have often been asked, ''Do not people bore you?'' I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.