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May you find great value in these quotes by schoolyard rhyme.
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me.
- schoolyard rhyme
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
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)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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