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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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The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- 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
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- 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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
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 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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
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
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
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
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
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)
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
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
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
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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