Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what no one has thought.

-Albert Szent-Gyrogyi

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

-Robert Frost

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

-Winston Churchill

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

-Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

-Leonardo da Vinci

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

-Bill Gates

A question that sometimes drives me crazy : am I or are the others crazy?

-Albert Einstein

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

-Isaac Newton

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

-Richard Bach

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

-Sigmund Freud

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

-Bertrand Russell

Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

-Maya Angelou

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

-Khalil Gibran

It's our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

-Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Only fools can be certain; it takes wisdom to be confused.

-Anon

Don't pray for the task that matches your strength, pray for the strength that matches your task!

-Helen Keller