Achievements Quote by Albert Einstein

“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them -…

— Boris Pasternak

“Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the…

— Jetta Carleton

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Now: the first requirement of stability in a human being was that the said human being should really desire to exist. This is what…

— Saul Bellow

“I do not care how learned a man may be, or how extensively he may have traveled; I do not care what his talent,…

— John Taylor