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May you find great value in these Relativity quotes and sayings.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
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
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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