Nikola Tesla Quote

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Leo Tolstoy

• Faith
• Virtue

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

• Mind
• Intelligence
• Virtue

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell

• Virtue

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

• Man

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

• Words

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France

• Virtue

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Jean Racine

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Tennessee Williams

• Man
• Honesty

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

• Man
• Action

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Education
• Virtue

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

• Intelligence

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

• Man

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus

• Self-discovery

A nation like this cannot fail to be prosperous: when man is both just and energetic the rest comes to him as surplus.

Hippolyte Taine

The force of character is cumulative. All the foregone days of virtue work thier health into this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Virtue

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Brian Greene

• Cat

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean de La Fontaine

• Truth
• Power
• Virtue

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Billie Jean King