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May you find great value in these Contradict quotes and sayings.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming
that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
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)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- 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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Fear not for the future,
weep not for the past.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
We learn more by looking for the answer
to a question and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
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