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May you find great value in these Illiterate quotes and sayings.
The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
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
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An error does not become truth
by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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