Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. - Dale Carnegie
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. - Vincent van Gogh
There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing. - Vincent van Gogh
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. - Vincent van Gogh
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. - Vincent van Gogh
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace. - Vincent van Gogh
We spent our whole lives in unconscious exercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words. - Vincent van Gogh
What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way? - Vincent van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars. - Vincent van Gogh
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. - Vincent van Gogh
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly pay check, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. - Vincent van Gogh
Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.
Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe
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