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)
"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
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
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
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
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
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
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
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
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
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
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