“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Context: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.
“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
“The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.”
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 38
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 27
Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 37
Remark made by von Neumann as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947, as mentioned by Franz L. Alt at the end of "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945--1947", Communications of the ACM, volume 15, issue 7, July 1972, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery, p. 694.
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
