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People who think they know everything
by Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- 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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's humbling to think that all animals,
including human beings,
are parasites of the plant world.
- Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov

I have never written a book that didn't teach me
far more than it taught any reader.
- Isaac Asimov

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

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

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

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

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie