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May you find great value in these quotes by George Carlin.
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
If a man smiles all the time,
he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
- George Carlin
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
Inside every cynical person,
there is a disappointed idealist.
- George Carlin
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
- George Carlin
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
I don't like to think of laws
as rules you have to follow,
but more as suggestions.
- George Carlin
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin
I love and treasure individuals as I meet them;
I loathe and despise the groups
they identify with and belong to.
- George Carlin
The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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 problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
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
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
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
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
Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford
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