QUOTES ON MORALITY:

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle. Frederick Lewis Donaldson
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Nol Coward, Blithe Spirit

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and
to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find
them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible
for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
C.G. Jung
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber
baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who
torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience.
C.S. Lewis

SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear
of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below
us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain

OPINIONS AND VALUES:

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their
passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a
clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
How would your life be different ifYou stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with
their words or opinions? Let today be the dayYou stand strong in the truth of your beauty and
journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of
their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)
Albert Einstein
Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday
and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

QUOTES ON KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY:

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest
treasure to acquire.

L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

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

Stephen Hawking
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

C.E.M. Joad
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up
new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new
paths.
Walt Disney Company

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Albert Einstein
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random
conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft)
will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And dont bother concealing your
thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said:
Its not where you take things from - its where you take them to."
[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]
Jim Jarmusch

LEARNING:
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter.
Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even
matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and
watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be
loved.
C. JoyBell C.
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein