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May you find great value in these quotes by Forrest.
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
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Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
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
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police
because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
- Ilie Nastase
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
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
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Doubt is the vestibule which we all must pass through
before we can enter the temple of truth.
- Osho
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
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
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