Sunday, September 27, 2015

A True Friend Is One Who Touches Your Heart Without Having To Touch Your Hands

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A True Friend Is One Who Touches Your Heart Without Having To Touch Your Hands
 "A true friend is one who touches your heart without having to touch your hands." - Quotesan (The Lady Who Flirts With 11 Quotations)

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts, And Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted

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Albert Einstein Quotations

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” - Albert Einstein ?


Update: According to Quote Investigator, there is no evidence that Albert Einstein crafted the above quotation. And the evidence that Einstein wrote it on a blackboard is weak.

In other words, the source of this quotation is still not properly verified.

Albert Einstein was the world's most influential German-born theoretical physicist. 

He is known for the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts, And Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted

When you mention Einstein, almost immediately folks would think of the renowned mad scientist with his shabby hairstyle and his equally known equation, E = mc2.

Verified Authentic Albert Einstein Quotations


Anyway, here are five authentic Albert Einstein quotations:

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” [1]
wisdom, school, attempt
"Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity." [2]
act, compulsion, necessity
"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking." [3]
science, refinement, thinking
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it." [4]
science, wonder, living
"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts." [5]
daring, speculation, accumulation, facts
Citations:
[1] To J. Dispentiere, March 24, 1954. Einstein Archives 59-495
[2] The World As I See It, 1949
[3] “Physics and Reality,” Journal of the Franklin Institute 221, no. 3 (March 1936), 349–382. Reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, 290
[4] To California student, E. Holzapfel, March 1951. Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, Albert Einstein, the Human Side, 57. Einstein Archives 59-1013
[5] Letter to Michele Besso, 8 October 1952

Wrinkles Should Merely Indicate Where The Smiles Have Been

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Growing Old Gracefully Quotes

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” - Mark Twain


Mark Twain was an American author and humorist.

He is known for the classic American novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

This great literary icon who was hailed as "the father of American literature" started off his writing career by writing light, humorous verse.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Twain literary fame began with his story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" which was published in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865.

Mark Twain's first book was published in 1869, titled "The Innocents Abroad".

Here are five famous Mark Twain quotations:

“Always do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
right, gratify, astonish
"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes, and wishes he was certain."
religion, man, believes, wishes, certain
"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."
grander, principle, lie
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
moon, dark, side
"An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music, and one cannot tell about music so that another person can get the feeling of it."
ecstasy, words, music, feeling

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I Am Not Young Enough To Know Everything

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Growing Old Gracefully Quotes

“I am not young enough to know everything.” - Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wilde was an Irish author, playwright and poet. 

He is best known for the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and the play "The Importance of Being Earnest". 

I am not young enough to know everything

Here are five great Oscar Wilde quotations:

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Some Day You Will Be Old Enough To Start Reading Fairy Tales Again

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Growing Old Gracefully Quotes

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." - C. S. Lewis


C. S. Lewis was a British novelist, poet and academic who is best known for his fictional work, "The Screwtape Letters", "The Chronicles of Narnia", and "The Space Trilogy".

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Here are five of his more popular quotations:

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."