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May you find great value in these Guantanamo quotes and sayings.
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
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
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
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
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
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
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
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
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 problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
What we think, we become.
- The Buddha
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
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
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
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
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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 important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes
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
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
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.
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is when
what you think,
what you say,
and what you do
are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
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