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Nelson Mandela, fully Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
We want our children to become warm, decent human beings who reach out generously to those in need. We hope they find values and ideals to give their lives purpose so they contribute to the world and make it a better place because they have lived in it. Intelligence, success, and high achievement are worthy goals, but they mean nothing if our children are not basically kind and loving people.
Achievement | Better | Children | Hope | Ideals | Nothing | Purpose | Purpose | World |
Nelson Goodman, fully Henry Nelson Goodman
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
Hope | Simplicity |
Nelson Mandela, fully Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Niels Bohr, fully Neils Henrik David Bohr
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
Live here now! Living in hope is living in the future, which is really postponing life. It is not a way of living, but a way of suicide. There is no need for any hope and there is no need to feel hopeless. Live here now. Life is tremendously blissful, it is showering here and you are looking somewhere else. It is just in front of your eyes, but your eyes have moved far away, they look at the horizon. It is within you, but you are not there.
Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé, preferred to be called Marie Louise de la Ramée NULL
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
No relationship can satisfy, because every relationship begins with great hope, and that is not possible to be fulfilled. Yes, that hope can be fulfilled, but it can be fulfilled only when you have fallen in love with the whole. No part can fulfill it. When you have fallen in love with the total, when the merger happens with the total, only then will there be contentment. There will be nobody who is contented, there will be simply contentment. And then there is no end to it.
Hope | Love | Relationship | Will |
Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé, preferred to be called Marie Louise de la Ramée NULL
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite. To forgive wrongs darker than death or night. To defy power which seems omnipotent. To love and live to hope till hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates. Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.
Paul Dirac, fully Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
I must say that I also do not like indeterminism. I have to accept it because it is certainly the best that we can do with our present knowledge. One can always hope that there will be future developments which will lead to a drastically different theory from the present quantum mechanical theory and for which there may be a partial return of determinism. However, so long as one keeps to the present formalism, one has to have this indeterminism.
Paul Dirac, fully Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better.
God | Hope | Mathematics | Universe | God | Understand |
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.
Paul the Apostle, aka Saint Paul, Paul of Tarsus, originally Saul NULL
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Character | Endurance | Hope | Knowing | Love | Spirit | Suffering |
Paul Dirac, fully Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future. A good many people are working on the mathematical basis of quantum theory, trying to understand the theory better and to make it more powerful and more beautiful. If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply them.
Better | Future | Good | Hope | Mathematics | People | Right | Will | Learn | Understand |
Paul Gaugin, fully Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
I am afraid of committing myself she thought to herself she wanted to follow all possible paths and ended up following none… I am afraid of death, but what I fear more than death, is to waste my life in vain, and called love because it contains things beyond our understanding, it sheds a light of a particular kind, but what scares me is what this places the light from the shadows… Fear lasts only until the point at which it is the occurrence of the outlawed, then the fear is losing its meaning, and left us only hope that we have taken the right decision.
Fear | Hope | Life | Life | Light | Love | Right | Thought | Waste | Following | Afraid | Thought |