It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov
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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
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
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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
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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.
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
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
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
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 greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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 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
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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
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
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
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
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
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
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
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
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
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You become what you think about.
- Earl Nightingale
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
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