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
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I love fools' experiments.
I am always making them.
- Charles Darwin
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
- 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
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
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
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
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