Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 3,
Authors 'E' and 'F'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| E | |
| "Five percent of people think; ten percent of people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think." | Thomas Edison |
| "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." | Thomas Edison |
| "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." | Thomas Edison |
| "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." | Thomas Edison |
| "If there's a way to do it better ... find it." | Thomas Edison |
| "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certaiin way to succeed is always to try just one more time." | Thomas Edison |
| "There is no substitute for hard work." | Thomas Edison |
| "Vision without execution is hallucination." | Thomas Edison |
| "A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is not what it is built for." | Albert Einstein |
| "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." | Albert Einstein |
| "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." | Albert Einstein |
| "Creativity is contagious, pass it on." | Albert Einstein |
| "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." | Albert Einstein |
| "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." | Albert Einstein |
| "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." | Albert Einstein |
| "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." | Albert Einstein |
| "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." | Albert Einstein |
| "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." | Albert Einstein |
| "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." | Albert Einstein |
| "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." | Albert Einstein |
| "Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." | Albert Einstein |
| "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." | Albert Einstein |
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." | Albert Einstein |
| "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." | Albert Einstein |
| "When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." | Albert Einstein |
| "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." | Albert Einstein |
| “You don’t really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.” | Albert Einstein |
| "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." | Albert Einstein |
| "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The only way to have a friend is to be one." | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side." | Euripedes |
| "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." | Euripedes |
| F | |
| "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction." | William Faulkner |
| "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." | Henry Ford |
| "Don't find fault, find a remedy." | Henry Ford |
| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." | Henry Ford |
| "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." | Henry Ford |
| "The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." | Malcolm Forbes |
| "It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. | Anatole France |
| "Nine-tenths of education is encouragement." | Anatole France |
| "The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever." | Anatole France |
| "To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe." | Anatole France |
| "What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation." | Anatole France |
| "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." | Benjamin Franklin |
| “In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” | Benjamin Franklin |
| "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "Most fools think they are only ignorant." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." | Anna Freud |
| "Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral that they can imagine." | Sigmund Freud |
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