Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
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 must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real us is pure love, pure light
- don Miguel Ruiz
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
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
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals
relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship.
They will be loving to each other,
but not being possessive of each other.
They will be sharing with each other
all their joys and all their blessings,
but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating,
thinking of enslaving the other person.
- Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon,
it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there.
- John F. Kennedy
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver
You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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