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A witty saying proves nothing. ...
by Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

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

The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire

The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

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

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

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

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie