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It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain 
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)
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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