A.R. Von Quotes

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.