It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
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
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom,
but Babbling is ever a folly.
- Benjamin Franklin
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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