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It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
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The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
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Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am a being of free-will,
and I CHOOSE each and every action I make,
every thought I think, and every emotion I feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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