Inspiration Quotes

The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies "Oh yes they could."

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

A truce to philosophy! — Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counter-intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they would get, but if you work hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.