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Some great quotations from the greatest thinkers of all time  (George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Alva Edison):-

Quotations by George Bernard Shaw:

• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
• You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
• When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
• A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
• He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
• There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Quotations by Bertrand Russell:

• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
• Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
• Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
• War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
• All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Quotations by Thomas Alva Edison:

• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
• If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.