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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
"A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you."
"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
"The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market."
"Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended."
"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names."
"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
"I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world."
"Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles."
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
"Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one."
"Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime."
"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers."
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?"
"Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs."
"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."
"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
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