"Without mathematics one cannot fathom the depths of philosophy;
Without philosophy one cannot fathom the depths of mathematics;
Without the two one cannot fathom anything."
Bordas-Demoulins

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world"
Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Albert Einstein

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking"
Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler"
Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is a lame. Religion without science is a blind."
Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the former."
Albert Einstein

"Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age"
C.S. Lewis, Miracles: a preliminary study

"It has often been said that a person does not really understand something until he teaches it to someone else.
Actually a person does not really understand something until he can teach it to a computer"
Donald E. Knuth

"Computer Science and its relation to mathematics"
American Mathematical Monthly, 81, 1974

"The advanced reader who skips parts that appear to him too elementary may miss more than the less advanced reader who skips parts that appear to him too complex."
George Polya
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics

"Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way"
George Polya

Banach once told me, 'Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories,
the very best onces see analogies between analogies'
Stanis law Ulam, Advantures of a Mathematician

"We have to think of ourselves as artists. As Picasso said,
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Steve Jobs

"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot.
The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius"
Sid Caesar

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen:
whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different"
Johaan Wolfgang von Goethe

"Unlike many other approaches and techniques, material requirements planning "works", which is its best recommendation"
Joseph Orlicky

"The important thing is not to stop questioning"
Albert Einsterin

"Anyone who stop is old, whether at 20 or 80.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young"
Henry Ford

"One's work may be finished some day,
but one's education never"
J.R. Ewing of "Dallas"

"Do you know the difference between education and experience?
Education is when you read the fine print;
experience is what you get when you don't"
Pete Seeger

"The roots of education are bitter,
but the fruit is sweet."
Aristotle

"Education is an ornament in prosperity
and a refuge in adversity."
Aristotle

"Self-education is, I firmly believe,
the only kind of education there is."
Isaac Asimov

"Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius."
Charlotte Bronte

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
B.B. King

"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."
W.H. Auden

"I am not young enough to know everything."
J.M. Barrie, author of "Peter Pan"

"I find television very educational.
Every time someone switches it on,
I go into another room and read a good book."
Groucho Marx

"Thinking is more precious than all five senses."
Rabbi Nachman

"If you wouldn't be forgotten.
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing."
Bejamin Franklin

"A child educated only at school is an undereducated child."
George Santayana

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on
who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
Joseph Stalin

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost

"A person isn't educated unless he has learned how little he already knows."
Thomas A. Fleming

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top.
Then you will see how low it was."
Dag Hammarskjold

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
Chinese Proverb

"Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God."
Leo Buscaglia

"I am a compulsive neurotic.
I like my imagination crushed into dust.
I enjoy being a professor's slave.
My idea of a good time is using jargon and citing authorities.
I feel a deep need to continuous the process of avoiding life."
Matt Groening of "Life in Hell"

"Teachers kill creativity by inducing students to give them the answers that students think teacher expect.
Answers that are expected cannot be creative."
Russell L. Ackoff, Ackoff's Fables

Something you may want to use after finishing thesis/dissertation

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes."
Emily Dickinson

"A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it."
Samuel Johnson

"Keep right on to the end of the road."
Harry Lauder

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another."
Frank J. Dobie 

"You didn't see what it was.
You saw what you wanted to see"
Joan's conscience The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

"Failure is our most important product."
R.W. Johnson, Jr., former CEO, Johnson & Johnson (1954)

"Growth is a gambler's game."
Ralph Larson, former CEO, Johnson & Johnson (1992)

"From now on, [choosing my successor] is the most important decision I'll make. It occupies a considerable amount of thought almost every day."
Jack Welch, CEO, General Electric, speaking about succession planning in 1991 -nine years before his anticipated retirement.

"Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought."
Einstein

"When ambition exceeds performance, the gap is called frustration
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success."
Cullen Hightower, Humorist

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) Professional football coach

"You can have no greater sign of a confirmed pride than when you thin you are humble enough."
Law, Serious call, cap. XVI

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.
Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
Dale Carnegie

"Who is more foolish?
The fool, or the fool that follows him?"
Star Wars -The Movie

"Try not. Do, or do not.
There is no "try."
Star Wars -The Movie

"A friend is someone who knows the worst thing about you and it doesn't matter."
Meet Joe Black -The Movie

"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age"
Albert Einsterin

"God does not play dice with the universe"
Albert Einsterin

"Stop telling God what to do"
Niels Bohr

"Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
Lord Tennyson Alfred, 1809-1892

"It is better to be feared than loved,
if you cannot be both."
Niccolo Machiavelli -The Prince

"To a pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To an optimist it is half full."
Anomymous

"When luck is on your side, you can do without brains"
Giodano Bruno

"The more you know the luckier you get"
J.R. Ewing of "Dallas"

"Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to go" said the Cat.
"I don't much care where" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go;" said the Cat.
"so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough"
Lewis Carroll of "Alice in Wonderland"

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there."
Yogi Berra

"Believe you can and you're halfway there"
Theodore Roosevelt

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
John D. Rockefeller

"If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following,
then you are just taking a walk"
Bejamin Hooks

"Be wiser than other people if you can;
but do not tell them so."
Lord Chesterfield

"A pro is someone who can do great work
when he doesn't feel like it"
Alistair Cook

"The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 30
has wasted 20 years of his life"
Muhammed Ali

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clarke

"Well done is better than well said."
Bejamin Franklin

"Genius is but one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
Galileo

"Kites rise highest against the wind -not with it."
Winston Churchill

"Be smart but never show it."
Louis B. Mayer

"My grandfather told me there are two kinds of people:
Those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to be in the first group;
there was much less competition."
Indira Gandhi

"Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value"
Albert Einstein

"A boss says GO while a leader says LET'S GO"
General Douglas McArthur

"The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary"
Vidal Sassoon

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
Vince Lombardi

"The game isn't over till it's over."
Yogi Berra

"After all, tomorrow is another day."
Margaret Mitchell

"Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist when he grows up."
Picasso

"No man is an Island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the Continent,
a part of the main."
John Donne, Devotions

"Every company needs people who make mistakes,
are not afraid to err,
and who learn from the mistakes."
Bill Gates

"Expect the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes."
Chinese proverb

"People join companies and leave managers."
Marcus Buckingham, Senior Managing Consultant at Gallup

"Miserable mortals, open your eyes"
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit"
Aristotle