The best Quotes by Isaac Newton

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Quotes about Isaac Newton

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

Paul Samuelson

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

Snow Winter Coldness

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

Light Motivation

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Thoughts

If love ruled on Earth, all laws were expendable.

Aristotle

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

Plato

Playing

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Plato

Learning

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

War Death

Nature is a letter written by God for humanity.

Plato

To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.

Paul Samuelson

Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.

Paul Samuelson

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

Paul Samuelson

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Education

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

Judi Dench

Brücken

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

T. D. Jakes

Brücken

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Greed Humanity Money

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Browning

Genius

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Alexandre Dumas

Genius Foolishness

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Max Planck

Truth

Philosophy is basically thinking about thinking. Which sounds like a waste of time, because it is.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

Philosophy

"Put more than one philosopher together and you'll birth an argument," Erlin commented. "A truism I've observed the world over. In fact, I once saw one argue with himself, it got quite violent in the end."

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 3: Queen of Fire

Philosophy

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.

Richard Branson

Taking action Motivation Falling down

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Bob Marley

God Tolerance

Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.

Psalms - 68, 20

God

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Carl Sagan

Stars

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

Optimism Pessimism

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Knowledge Intelligence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Niels Bohr

Physics Atoms

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

Work Progress

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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