World Quotations

Quotation 5

2007-05-10T20:11:00.000+03:00

"........ are the enemy of truth."

by Miguel de Cervantes

Cervantes was really one of the most influential writers of all times. His book Don Quixote is a well known story in almost all countries and surely a classical one. The concept of Don Quixote converted to a term used in Turkish to describe men behaving with meaningless effort. That is behaving like in a "mad courage" mood with no real support against a big power.

Don Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616)

was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. Cervantes was one of the most important and influential persons in literature and the leading figure associated with the cultural fluorescence of sixteenth century Spain (the Siglo de Oro). His novel, Don Quixote, is considered as a founding classic of Western literature and regularly figures among the best novels ever written; it has been translated into more than sixty-five languages, while editions continue regularly to be printed, and critical discussion of the work has unabatedly persisted since the 18th century. More Information

Quotation 4

2007-05-09T18:18:00.000+03:00

" He who can, does. He who cannot, ......... "

by George Bernard Shaw

Shaw is one of the my favourite western thinkers. I am not a socialist sure but I know that Shaw was a man of truths, was speaking and writing this way. And he was surely one of the greatest thinkers of Europeans.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950)

was an Irish writer. Famed as a playwright, he wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for Pygmalion. He was a strong advocate for socialism and women's rights, a vegetarian and teetotaller, and a harsh critic of formal education. Shaw died in 1950 at the age of 94.
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Quotation 3

2007-05-08T18:57:00.000+03:00

"Try not to become a man of success; but rather to become a man of ........."

by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955)

was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for his "theory of relativity" and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics. More Information

Quotation 2

2007-05-07T11:08:00.000+03:00

" Am I not destroying my ......... when I make friends of them? "

by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

President of the United States (March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865). As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year.

Lincoln helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. More Information

Quotation 1

2007-05-06T10:32:00.000+03:00

" There is nothing more fearful than ......... in action. "

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)

was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, theorist, humanist, scientist, painter, and polymath. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem Faust, is considered one of the peaks of world literature. Goethe’s other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and the semi-autobiographical novel Elective Affinities.

Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality (”Empfindsamkeit”), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of Faust and Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. Goethe’s influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a primary source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry, and philosophy. He is widely considered to be one of the most important thinkers in Western culture. More information

Hello World!

2007-05-06T10:24:00.000+03:00

Welcome to the World Quotations blog!

I will add daily quotations from famous authors and books, and will ask you to guess missed word(s) . Remember that there are different translations for the same quotations, it's not important to find exact word but you can find something close to main thesis. Try to fill out with your own word(s)

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