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Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. ...
by Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Myth Religion Belief Mind Tradition Faith

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain

Peace, Love, Health, Comfort, Joy, and the Light of Spirit -
all the rest is nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie