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"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth." Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide." John Dryden 4.7647 average rating Rate this Quote
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." Freeman John Dyson 3.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence." Sue Atchley Ebaugh 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Great ideas originate in the muscles." Thomas Alva Edison 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nature is God's greatest evangelist." Johathan Edwards 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." Johathan Edwards 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." Tryon Edwards 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation." Albert Einstein 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form." Albert Einstein 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms." Albert Einstein 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." Albert Einstein 4.2143 average rating Rate this Quote
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." Albert Einstein 4.3846 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?" Albert Einstein 4.6400 average rating Rate this Quote
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." Albert Einstein 4.6364 average rating Rate this Quote
"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." Albert Einstein 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein 4.9333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." Albert Einstein 4.7857 average rating Rate this Quote
"Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours." Albert Einstein 4.6111 average rating Rate this Quote
"That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy." Dwight David Eisenhower Rate this Quote
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