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Welcome to these Incomprehensible Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed
in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Shake structures.
School yourself.
Look twice at a thing,
once upside down.
Answer yourself clearly.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained.
- Marie Curie
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
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