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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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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
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
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
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Children are born innocent.
Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,
love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.
- don Miguel Ruiz
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
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
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
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
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
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
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want,
but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
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
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When you are tempted to judge,
may you be reminded that we are ALL ONE,
and that every thought you think reverberates
across the universe touching everyone and everything.
- from the Simple Truths movie May You Be Blessed
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
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
I know how hard it is in these times to have faith.
But maybe if you could have the faith to start with,
maybe the times would change.
You could change them. Think about it. Try.
And try not to hurt each other.
- the movie Oh, God!
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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