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Elbert Hubbard Foto

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Una máquina puede hacer el trabajo de 50 hombres corrientes. Pero no existe ninguna máquina que pueda hacer el trabajo de un hombre extraordinario.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Fuente: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 151

Confucius Foto

“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. [by 朱冀平]
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV

Woody Allen Foto
John Steinbeck Foto

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

John Steinbeck libro Al este del Edén

Fuente: East of Eden

Albert Einstein Foto

“Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.”
Sólo hay dos cosas infinitas: el universo y la estupidez humana. Y no estoy tan seguro de la primera.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

As discussed in this entry from The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/#more-173, the earliest published attribution of a similar quote to Einstein seems to have been in Gestalt therapist Frederick S. Perls' 1969 book Gestalt Theory Verbatim, where he wrote on p. 33: "As Albert Einstein once said to me: 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.' But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing." Perls also offered another variant in his 1972 book In and Out the Garbage Pail, where he mentioned a meeting with Einstein and on p. 52 http://books.google.com/books?id=HuxFAAAAYAAJ&q=human+stupidity#search_anchor quoted him saying: "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe." However, Perls had given yet another variant of this quote in an earlier book, Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: a Revision of Freud’s Theory and Method (originally published 1942, although the Quote Investigator only checked that the quote appeared in the 1947 edition), where he attributed it not to Einstein but to a "great astronomer", writing: "As modern times promote hasty eating to a large extent, it is not surprising to learn that a great astronomer said: 'Two things are infinite, as far as we know – the universe and human stupidity.' To-day we know that this statement is not quite correct. Einstein has proved that the universe is limited." So, the later attributions in 1969 and 1972 may have been a case of faulty memory, or of intentionally trying to increase the authority of the quote by attributing it to Einstein. The quote itself may be a variant of a similar quote attributed even earlier to the philosopher Ernest Renan, found for example in The Public: Volume 18 from 1915, which says on p. 1126 http://books.google.com/books?id=cTPmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1126#v=onepage&q&f=false: "He quotes the saying of Renan: it isn't the stars that give him an idea of infinity; it is man's stupidity." (Other examples of similar attributions to Renan can be found on this Google Books search http://www.google.com/search?q=renan+infinity+stupidity&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1.) Renan was French so this is presumably intended as a translation, but different sources give different versions of the supposed original French quote, such as "La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l'infini" (found for example in Réflexions sur la vie, 1895-1898 by Remy de Gourmont from 1903, p. 103 http://books.google.com/books?id=RtrtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q&f=false, along with several other early sources as seen in this search http://www.google.com/search?q=%22humaine+est+la+seule+chose+qui%22+renan&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1) and "Ce n'est pas l'immensité de la voûte étoilée qui peut donner le plus complétement l'idée de l'infini, mais bien la bêtise humaine!" (found in Broad views, Volume 2 from 1904, p. 465 http://books.google.com/books?id=9NEaAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA465#v=onepage&q&f=false). Since these variants have not been found in Renan's own writings, they may represent false attributions as well. They may also be variants of an even older saying; for example, the 1880 book Des vers by Guy de Maupassant includes on p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=cQUvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP21#v=onepage&q&f=false a quote from a letter (dated February 19, 1880) by Gustave Flaubert where Flaubert writes "Cependant, qui sait? La terre a des limites, mais la bêtise humaine est infinie!" which translates to "But who knows? The earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is infinite!" Similarly the 1887 book Melanges by Jules-Paul Tardivel includes on p. 273 http://books.google.com/books?id=n9cOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA273#v=onepage&q&f=false a piece said to have been written in 1880 in which he writes "Aujourd'hui je sais qu'il n'y a pas de limites à la bêtise humaine, qu'elle est infinie" which translates to "today I know that there is no limit to human stupidity, it is infinite."
Disputed
Variante: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Earliest version located is in Technocracy digest: Issues 287–314 from 1988, p. 76 http://books.google.com/books?id=L7LnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22sure+about+the+former%22#search_anchor. Translated to German as: "Zwei Dinge sind unendlich: das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit. Aber beim Universum bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher." (Earliest version located is Arndt-Michael Meyer, Die Macht der Kürze, Books on Demand GmbH, 2004, p. 14 http://books.google.gr/books?id=12DW-RBKTW8C&pg=PA14&dq=%22Zwei+Dinge+sind+unendlich:+das+Universum+und+die+menschliche+%22+arnd&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gquJUsrYBomM7AapmYGgCQ&ved=0CC8Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Zwei%20Dinge%20sind%20unendlich%3A%20das%20Universum%20und%20die%20menschliche%20%22%20arnd&f=false.)
Variante: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

Charles Bukowski libro Mujeres

Variante: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Fuente: Women

Paulo Coelho Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Variante: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Shirley MacLaine Foto

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

Shirley MacLaine (1934) American actress

Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variante: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Edward Gibbon Foto

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Vol. 1, Chap. 68. Compare: "On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons" (translated: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"), Voltaire, Letter to M. le Riche. 1770; "J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (translated: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions"), De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)

Ernest Hemingway Foto

“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”

Ernest Hemingway libro El viejo y la mar

Fuente: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Marcus Aurelius Foto
Stephen King Foto

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Fuente: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Thomas Jefferson Foto

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Letter to Thomas Cooper (29 November 1802)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
Variante: If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
La vida es un viaje no un destino.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Marilyn Monroe Foto

“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Her Inspiration : Secrets to Help You Work Smart, Be Successful, and Have Fun (2008) by Mina Parker
Variante: I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Richard Bach Foto
Jane Austen Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto
Jane Austen Foto

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

Jane Austen libro Orgullo y prejuicio

Fuente: Pride and Prejudice

Woody Allen Foto

“I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
No puedo escuchar tanto Wagner, ¿sabes? Comienzo a tener el impulso de conquistar Polonia.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Robert T. Kiyosaki Foto
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
La cometa se eleva más alto en contra del viento, no a su favor.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Variante: A kite flies against the wind, not with it.

Charles Bukowski Foto

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
La belleza no es nada, la belleza no se quedará. No sabes la suerte que tienes de ser feo, porque si le agradas a la gente, sabes que es por otra cosa.

Charles Bukowski libro Tales of Ordinary Madness

Fuente: Tales of Ordinary Madness

W. Clement Stone Foto
P.G. Wodehouse Foto

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Fuente: Very Good, Jeeves!

Niccolo Machiavelli Foto

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

Niccolo Machiavelli libro El Príncipe

Variant trans: Everybody sees what you seem, but few know what thou art.
Ch. 18
Variante: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are
Fuente: The Prince (1513)
Contexto: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

George Bernard Shaw Foto

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
No hay amor más sincero que el que sentimos hacia la comida.

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

Fuente: 1900s, Man and Superman (1903), p. 23

Gabriel García Márquez Foto
Henry Van Dyke Foto

“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.”

John Brunner libro Stand on Zanzibar

Fuente: Stand on Zanzibar

George Bernard Shaw Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”

F. Scott Fitzgerald libro Hermosos y malditos

Fuente: The Beautiful and Damned

Sören Kierkegaard Foto

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
La gente exige libertad de expresión como compensación a la libertad de pensamiento, que rara vez utilizan.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Andy Warhol Foto

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

Andy Warhol libro The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Fuente: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 7: Time
Fuente: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Sören Kierkegaard Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto
John Cleese Foto

“Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.”

John Cleese (1939) actor from England

BBC interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/11/20/john_cleese_die_another_day_interview.shtml on Die Another Day (20 November 2002)]

Salvador Dalí Foto

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

Fuente: The Clowns of God (1981), Ch. II (ellipses in original) <!-- p. 35 -->
This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
Contexto: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

George Gordon Byron Foto

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
El gran objetivo de la vida es la sensación: sentir que existimos, aunque estemos sintiendo dolor.

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Douglas Coupland Foto
Thich Nhat Hanh Foto
Leo Buscaglia Foto

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
Una sola rosa puede ser mi jardín; un solo amigo, puede ser mi mundo

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Guy De Maupassant Foto
Jack Kerouac Foto

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
Sentí una punzada en el corazón, como me pasaba cada vez que veía que una chica que me gustaba y yo nos dirigíamos a puntos opuestos de este mundo demasiado grande.

Jack Kerouac libro En el camino

Variante: I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.
Fuente: On the Road

Henry Ford Foto

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
Los obstáculos son esas cosas espantosas que ves cuando apartas los ojos de tu meta.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Jack Kerouac Foto
Albert Einstein Foto

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
Lo más bello que podemos experimentar es el lado misterioso de la vida; es el sentimiento profundo que se encuentra en la cuna del arte y de la ciencia verdadera.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Fuente: The World As I See It

Victor Hugo Foto

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

Victor Hugo libro Los miserables

Variante: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Fuente: Les Misérables

William Wordsworth Foto

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Fuente: The Excursion 1814

Jean Paul Sartre Foto

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
John D. Rockefeller Foto
Albert Einstein Foto
Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Works and Days
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

Jack Kerouac Foto

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”
¿Qué me espera en la dirección que no tomo?

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Paulo Coelho Foto

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

Paulo Coelho libro El alquimista

Introduction, p. xi.
Fuente: The Alchemist (1988)
Contexto: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Jean Cocteau Foto

“Living is a horizontal fall.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Opium (1929)
Variante: Life is a horizontal fall.
Fuente: Opium: The Diary of His Cure

Lucille Ball Foto

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variante: Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Robert A. Heinlein Foto

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Fuente: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Stephen King Foto

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

Stephen King libro The Gunslinger

Fuente: The Gunslinger

Lou Holtz Foto

“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
No naciste ganador, ni naciste perdedor. Eres lo que haces de ti.

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
Agatha Christie Foto
Charles Baudelaire Foto
Thornton Wilder Foto
Margaret Thatcher Foto
George Bernard Shaw Foto

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…”
Patriotismo es la convicción de que tu país es superior a todo el resto sólo porque naciste en él

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

The World (15 November 1893)
1890s

Winston S. Churchill Foto

“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”
Nunca me preocupo por la acción, sino solo por la inacción.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Winston Churchill (Author) and Richard Langworth (Editor) (28. Oktober 2008): Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations. New York: PublicAffairs (1st Edition), page 160. note: See also: 1940s. Passim. Martin Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers, Volume II: Never Surrender, May 1940-December 1940. London: Heinemann, New York: Norton, 1994, page xvi, where Sir Martin writes in his Preface: "Inefficiency, incompetence and negative attitudes roused his ire: I have indicated some examples of this in the Churchill index entry, under “rebukes by.” He did not take kindly to what he called “a drizzle of carping criticism,” or to those officials, military or civilian, who, as he expressed it, “failed to rise to the height of circumstances.” Among his injunctions to his Ministers were, “Don’t let this matter sleep,” and, “I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.”" note: See also: In a letter, on page 1184 of the above work: Concerning “Operation Compass,” the first major British offensive in North Africa, Churchill wrote to General Dill on 7 December 1940: "If, with the situation as it is, General Wavell is only playing small, and is not hurling on his whole available forces with furious energy, he will have failed to rise to the height of circumstances. I never “worry” about action, but only about inaction." note: Source for all the aforementioned information: Richard M. Langworth (Senior fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian) (March 4, 2009): Churchill on Action vs. Inaction.
Fuente: Archived on June 2, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200602062301/https://richardlangworth.com/i-never-worry-about-action-but-only-about-inaction and secured on June 2, 2020 http://archive.is/Xgxu6 from the original https://richardlangworth.com/i-never-worry-about-action-but-only-about-inaction

Paulo Coelho Foto

“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variante: Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.

Amy Tan Foto
F. Scott Fitzgerald Foto

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
¿No puedes repetir el pasado? ... ¡Por supuesto que puedes!

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Fuente: The Great Gatsby

Jim Morrison Foto

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
Muéstrate a ti mismo ante tu más profundo miedo; después de eso, el miedo ya no tiene poder y eres libre.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Variante: Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Elbert Hubbard Foto

“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Ernest Hemingway Foto
Winston S. Churchill Foto

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Winston Churchill (June 23, 1925), His complete speeches, 1897–1963, edited by Robert Rhodes James, Chelsea House ed., vol. 4 (1922–1928), p. 3706. During a debate with Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden.
Often misquoted as: To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.
Early career years (1898–1929)

Albert Einstein Foto
Paulo Coelho Foto
Ernest Hemingway Foto

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
El mundo rompe a todos y después muchos, son fuertes en los lugares rotos.

Ernest Hemingway libro Adiós a las armas

Fuente: A Farewell to Arms

Jane Austen Foto

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

Jane Austen libro Sense and Sensibility

Fuente: Sense and Sensibility

William Faulkner Foto

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
Me siento como una semilla húmeda salvaje en la tierra caliente y ciega.

William Faulkner libro Mientras agonizo

Fuente: As I Lay Dying

René Descartes Foto

“I think, therefore I am.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

Je pense, donc je suis.
Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
Variante: I think, therefore I am.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Foto

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Paulo Coelho Foto
Henry Miller Foto
Emily Dickinson Foto
Stephen R. Covey Foto

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

Stephen R. Covey libro The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Fuente: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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