Quotes by Scientist

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Justice is a good quality that means finding a balance, guided by wisdom.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Those who know how to do things, do them. Those who truly understand things, teach them.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.