A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
Bertrand Russell

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality.
Rafael Benitez

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

I'm a solipsist and, I have to say, I'm surprised there aren't more of us.
from a letter to Bertrand Russell

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Confucius

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present. It was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.
Bill Shankly

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
Bill Shankly

If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
Bill Shankly

If a player isn't interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be!
Bill Shankly

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.
John Pierce

I thought of it the first time I saw it.
John Pierce

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
Popular Mechanics, 1949

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home
Ken Olson, in 1977

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.
Bill Gates, January 2004

Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
WC Fields

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Luck never gives; it only lends.
Anon

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Louis-Hector Berlioz

He who doesn't know how to enjoy luck when it comes, should not complain when it passes him by.
Miguel de Cervantes

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
Aesop

After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Aesop

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Aesop

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

Luck is the idol of the idle.
Proverb

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
François de La Rochefoucauld

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Fear not your enemies for they can only kill you; fear not your friends for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.
Edward Yashinsky

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Martin Luther King