1. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former”
2. “Only a fool needs an order, a genius dominates over the chaos”
3. “Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why”
4. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”
5. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”
6. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing it is stupid”
7. “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
8. “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”
9. “Imagination is more important than knowledge For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research”
10. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
11. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
12. “If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker”
13. “Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it.”
14. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
15. “Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think”
16. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character”
17. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts”
18. “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself”
19. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
20. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas”
21. “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person”
22. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things”
23. “International law exists only in textbooks on international law”
24. “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
25. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”
26. “I’m doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives”
27. “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
28. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough”
29. “The most wonderful thing we feel is impossible to explain”
30. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
31. “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
32. “You think everything is easy, yes it’s easy, but not so”
33. “All people are cheating. But that’s not terrible. people do not listen to one another”
34. “Too crazy to be genius”
35. “To break the wall with the forehead, you have to have a great deal of force, or many foreheads”
36. “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
37. “Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
38. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else”
39. “Never memorize something that you can look up”
40. “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

 18 recommendations of the great Austrian psychologist, psychiatrist and neurologist, the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud help overcome lack of confidence and understand ourselves.

Source: lifedeeper.ru

1. “The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter”

2. “The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past”

3. “The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside”

4. “Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self”

5. “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”

6. “Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard”

7. “Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being”

8. “There are no accidents and no coincidences”

9. “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror”

10. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility”

11. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength”

12. “How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved”

13. “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise”

14. “Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.” 

15. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength”

16. “What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes”

17. “The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot the flies come not”

18. “Only childhood dreams fulfilment will bring happiness”