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May you find great value in these Comedians quotes and sayings.
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
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
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
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
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
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- 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
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
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
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
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
You are what you think you are.
- Bob Richards
You are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
and smarter than you think.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
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