Thoughts on Cynics

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The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes

An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller

When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost

Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
- Lewis Carroll

A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown

Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

True believers just don't see things the way they are,
because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
- Philip Caputo

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

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