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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Action
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
The ending of a job or a relationship
may appear as the darkest night,
but it is merely the Winter season -
the time of renewal and rebirth
that precedes the new planting -
the beginning of the next great cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who are highly evolved,
maintain an undiscriminating perception.
Seeing everything, labeling nothing,
they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.
Thus they are supported by it.
- Lao Tzu
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
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