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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
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
When a man assumes a public trust
he should consider himself a public property.
- Thomas Jefferson
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail.
Without it, nothing can succeed.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today -
and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- 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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
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
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
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
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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