402 Quotes by Hungarian authors

Hungarian words often carry a sober glow, melancholy braided with stubborn hope. Proverbs speak in short, iron-edged truths, while poets linger over silence, exile, and sudden tenderness. Humor bends dry and sideways; grief is seasoned with defiance; love remembers history’s boot print. You’ll hear the clink of coffeehouse glasses, the hush of the puszta, the rustle of a worn prayer book. Freedom, fate, and home, haza, return like refrains, offering warmth as sharp as pálinka and comfort that refuses to forget.

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"The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

"If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems"

George Soros, Businessman

"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs"

George Soros, Businessman

"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes"

George Soros, Businessman

"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences"

George Soros, Businessman

"Truth is a great flirt"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"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"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"The public is always good"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"We turn the Cube and it twists us"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"Politics has become entertainment"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience"

George Szell, Composer

Small: George Szell

"Only the paranoid survive"

Andy Grove, Businessman

Small: Andy Grove

"In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

Small: Michael Polanyi

"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

Small: Michael Polanyi

"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way"

Kate Seredy, Writer

"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life"

Georg Solti, Musician

"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

Small: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities"

Anton Seidl, Musician

Small: Anton Seidl

"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"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"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"The character of a people may be ruined by charity"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

"Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Small: Theodor Herzl

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