G. H. Hardy Quotes

I have no knowledge of anything.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Service is what life is all about.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

It doesn't really matter to me how I make a difference, I just wanna make sure that I do.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.

I want to leave this earth knowing that I did something. I made a difference in someone's life.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.

There's a lot of people that are in need. We're going little by little... I'm only one person, but we are contributing.

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.