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May you find great value in these quotes by Arthur C. Clarke.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Credulity - willingness to accept
unsupported statements without demanding proof -
is the greatest ally of the dictator and the demagogue.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
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