No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no fear that the result of our experiment
will be that men may be trusted to
govern themselves without a master.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,
that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -
and there is no experiment up to now
that has found any center in the brain
which corresponds to awareness.
The whole work of meditation is
to make you aware of all that is "mind"
and disidentify yourself from it.
That very separation is the
greatest revolution that can happen to man.
Now you can do and act on only that
which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,
gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.
But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.
- Osho
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
I think that there is nothing, not even crime,
more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself
than this incessant business.
- Henry David Thoreau
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel
to the poor naked heathen,
but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe
have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
- Carl Jung
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
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)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- 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
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson
If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
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
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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