George Washington Carver's Quotes

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that.