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The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
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
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It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov
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 don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
True love comes quietly,
without banners or flashing lights.
If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
True love is like ghosts,
which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world,
and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
True friendship is never serene.
- Marquise de Sevigne
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
- Zhuangzi
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every true love song, by its very nature, is a duet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The True Path is the path on which
there is no coming and no going.
- Traditional Zen Koan
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can keep him from lynching me,
and I think that's pretty important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
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