
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
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“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
Die größten Geister sind zu den größten Lastern ebenso fähig wie zur größten Tugendhaftigkeit.
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
Ein Sexsymbol ist ein Ding, und ich hasse es, ein Ding zu sein.
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Kontext: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
Vielleicht hatten sie recht damit, Liebe in Bücher zu stecken. Vielleicht könnte sie nirgendwo sonst leben.
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
Die Menschheit kann nicht sehr viel Realität ertragen.
Quelle: Four Quartets
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
Keine Verwirrung ist vergleichbar mit der Verwirrung eines einfachen Verstandes ...
Quelle: The Great Gatsby
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
Liebe ist nichts Natürliches. Es erfordert vielmehr Disziplin, Konzentration, Geduld, Glauben und die Überwindung des Narzissmus. Es ist kein Gefühl, es ist eine Übung.
Quelle: The Art of Loving
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
Der Mensch kann leben und gesund sein, ohne daß er zu seiner Ernährung Tiere tötet. Wenn er also Fleisch ißt, so ist er mitschuldig am Morde von Tieren, nur um seinen Geschmack zu schmeicheln. So zu handeln, ist unmoralisch.
Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
Wenn du versuchst zu scheitern und Erfolg hast, was hast du getan?
“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”
Liebe kann nicht erzwungen werden, Liebe kann nicht überredet und gereizt werden. Sie kommt aus dem Himmel, ungefragt und unaufgefordert.
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
1940s
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
Das Leben beginnt auf der anderen Seite der Verzweiflung.
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Nur Menschen, die in der Lage sind, stark zu lieben, können auch große Trauer ertragen, aber die gleiche Notwendigkeit des Liebens dient dazu, ihrer Trauer entgegenzuwirken und sie zu heilen.
“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
Quelle: Pride and Prejudice
“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
Ich habe dich immer geliebt, und wenn man jemanden liebt, liebt man die ganze Person, so wie sie ist und nicht so, wie man sie gerne hätte. -Dolly
Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Quelle: Anna Karenina
“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”
“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”
Nur weil du einmal fällst, heißt das nicht, dass du bei allem fällst. Versuch es weiter, bleib dran und vertraue immer dir selbst, denn wenn du es nicht tust, wer dann?
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Die Hoffnung ist ein gutes Frühstück, aber ein schlechtes Abendbrot.
No. 36
Apophthegms (1624)
Variante: Money is a great servant but a bad master.
“All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.”
Love
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
Heute bist du du, das ist wahrer als wahr, es gibt niemanden am Leben, der duer ist, als du.
Variante: There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!
Quelle: Happy Birthday to You!
“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Die Geschichte wird freundlich zu mir sein, denn ich beabsichtige, sie zu schreiben.
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
Schneiden Sie alle diese Ausrufezeichen aus. Ein Ausrufezeichen ist wie ein Lachen über Ihren eigenen Witz.
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Der Besitz von Wissen tötet nicht den Sinn für Wunder und Rätsel. Es gibt immer mehr Rätsel.
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
Wenn Sie ein glückliches Leben führen möchten, binden Sie es an ein Ziel, nicht an Menschen oder Gegenstände.
As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32.
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variante: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”
Für alle Mädchen, die denken, du bist fett, weil du keine Größe Null bist, bist du die Schöne, die die Gesellschaft hässlich findet.
Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
Quelle: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Ich glaube fest an Glück und finde, je härter ich arbeite, desto mehr habe ich davon.
Has been attributed to Stephen Leacock's "Literary Lapses" (1910), but the quote does not appear in the Project Gutenberg edition http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6340/6340.txt of this work.
Misattributed
Variante: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Variante: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Eine Frage, die mich manchmal verwirrt: Bin ich oder sind die anderen verrückt?
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
Das größte Problem in der Kommunikation ist die Illusion, sie hätte stattgefunden.
The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000) by Marlene Caroselli, p. 71. But this quote seems more likely to come from William H. Whyte. The Biggest Problem in Communication Is the Illusion That It Has Taken Place, Quote Investigator, 2014-08-31, 2015-11-09 http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/,
Misattributed
“I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.”
Ich lebe, um erfolgreich zu sein, um Ihnen oder anderen nicht zu gefallen.
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Die Menschen scheinen nicht zu erkennen, dass ihre Meinung über die Welt auch ein Geständnis des Charakters ist.
The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Gravitation ist nicht verantwortlich für Menschen, die sich verlieben.
Variante: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Es gibt nur eine gute Sache im Leben, und das ist Liebe.
"The Love of Long Ago"
Quelle: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Kontext: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”
Quelle: The Magnetic Fields
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
Quelle: Democracy and Education
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Man kann Frieden haben. Oder man kann Freiheit haben. Rechne niemals damit, beide gleichzeitig zu haben.
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
Ohne Hoffnung, Brot zu essen, heißt immer noch, langsam zu verhungern.
"To the Young"
Quelle: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
“The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
Die höchste mögliche Stufe in der moralischen Kultur, zu der wir gelangen kön- nen, ist die, wenn wir erkennen, dass wir unsere Gedanken kontrollieren sollen.
volume I, chapter III: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals — continued", page 101 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=114&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
Es ist so viel dunkler, wenn ein Licht ausgeht, als es gewesen wäre, wenn es nie geschienen hätte.
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent
“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
Wenn Sie nicht ab und zu versagen, ist dies ein Zeichen dafür, dass Sie nichts sehr Innovatives tun.
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
Wagen Sie es, das Leben zu träumen, von dem Sie geträumt haben. Gehen Sie voran und lassen Sie Ihre Träume wahr werden.
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Kontinuierliche Anstrengung, nicht Stärke oder Intelligenz sind der Schlüssel, um das Potenzial zu erschließen.
First mentioned as "Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking and using our potential." according to Quote Investigator in the 1981 book The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery by Liane Cordes, Quote Page 89, Hazelden Publishing, Center City, Minnesota. For further research on this quote see: Quote Investigator (August 31, 2013): Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential Winston Churchill? Liane Cordes? Liane Cardes? Apocryphal? Archived http://archive.is/E0M12 on June 2, 2020.
Quelle: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/21/effort/ from the original
“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
Einsamkeit ist manchmal die beste Gesellschaft.
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
Man entdeckt keine neuen Erdteile, ohne den Mut zu haben, alte Küsten aus den Augen zu verlieren.
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”
Der Mensch ist zur Freiheit verurteilt. Denn wenn er erst einmal in die Welt geworfen ist, dann ist er für alles verantwortlich, was er tut.
Being and Nothingness (1943)
“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
Ich wusste, dass ich der Öffentlichkeit und der Welt angehörte, nicht, weil ich talentiert oder sogar schön war, sondern weil ich nie zu etwas oder sonst jemandem gehört hatte.
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Kein Pessimist hat je das Geheimnis der Sterne entdeckt, ist je zu einem unbekannten Land geseglt oder hat jemals dem menschlichen Geist einen neuen Himmel eröffnet.
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
Kriege sind arme Meißel, um friedliche Morgen zu schmieden.
“But man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Aber der Mensch ist nicht für eine Niederlage geschaffen. Ein Mann kann zerstört, aber nicht besiegt werden.
Variante: A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Quelle: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Without literature, life is hell.”
Ohne Literatur, Leben ist die Hölle.
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
Freundschaft verbessert das Glück und lindert das Elend, indem sie unsere Freuden verdoppelt und unseren Kummer teilt.
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Achtzig Prozent des Erfolgs bestehen darin, dort zu sein.
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
Wir sind wie Rosen, die sich nie die Mühe gemacht haben, zu blühen, wenn wir hätten blühen sollen, und es ist, als ob die Sonne vom Warten angewidert wäre.
“I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.”
As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
"Conflict in Vietnam and at Home" speech http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/filmmore/ps_ksu.html at Kansas State University on March 18, 1968 as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Die meisten Menschen wollen nicht wirklich Freiheit, denn zur Freiheit gehört auch Verantwortung - und davor fürchten sich die meisten Menschen.
Quelle: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Shallow men believe in luck.”
Flache Männer glauben an Glück.
Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Bleibe betrunken beim Schreiben, damit die Realität dich nicht vernichten kann.
Quelle: Zen in the Art of Writing
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Für mich selbst bin ich ein Optimist - es scheint nicht viel zu nützen, etwas anderes zu sein.
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Things do not change; we change.”
Dinge ändern sich nicht; wir verändern uns.
Quelle: Walden
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
Das Unverständlichste über die Welt ist, dass es überhaupt verständlich ist.
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Wir stöbern in unserer Seele und graben oft etwas aus, das dort unbemerkt hätte liegen sollen.
Quelle: Anna Karenina
The Official Website of Amelia Earhart - Quotes http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/quotes.html
“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”
Quelle: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68
War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variante: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
“Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”
As quoted in Textbook of Phacoemulsification (1988) by William F. Maloney and Lincoln Grindle, p. 79
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
The earliest quotes similar to this are presented as unattributed folk wisdom, such as this example from 1959:
As Brother Allen of Newsweek indicated, it has been fun, but don't try to rest on your laurels. Always remember, “YESTERDAY’S HOME-RUN DOESN’T COUNT IN TODAY’S GAME,” and today’s game is well under way.
The quote does not begin to be attributed to Babe Ruth until the 1980s, nearly 30 years after its first appearance.
Disputed
Quelle: F. N. Abbott, "On Your Marks", in [The Palm, vol lxxix, no. 1 (February 1959), Harry L., Bird (ed.), 1959, Champaign, IL, Alpha Tau Omega, 17, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.1744313v0079?urlappend=%3Bseq=19]
Quelle: https://books.google.com/books?id=cQsKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Yesterday%27s+home+runs%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Ruth
Nature, Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Variante: If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.
“When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.”
As quoted in "George C. Marshall and the Marshall Plan: A Model of Transformational Diplomacy" (2005) by Tom Callahan http://web.archive.org/web/20050616023457/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/dc/rks/47848.htm
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Die Vorstellungskraft ist nicht das Talent einiger Männer, sondern die Gesundheit eines jeden Mannes.
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”
As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
undated quotes
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
Eine erfolgreiche Person ist eine Person, die ein solides Fundament aus Ziegeln bauen kann, die die andere auf ihn werfen.
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Part 1, LXXIV
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)
As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.