List of Quotations

Here is a huge list of all the quotations used on this site, by author.

• “Absolutely loved How Life Really Works. Best thing I've ever read on the internet and it has definitely changed my life forever. I'm forever grateful :)” -- "switch flip trickery"
  
  
• “I am a calculated and empathetic elitist entrepreneur. My sense of justice and truth has led me to you. Praises to you.” -- "Twisted Mirror", Dunedin, New Zealand
  
  
• “Absolute truth might be a temporary illusion. As scientific history shows, there are always new facts. Hence, the most recent facts are unlikely to be the absolute truth.” -- Dr Auke J. Schade
  
  
• “Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.” -- Abba Eban
  
  
• “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” -- Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” -- Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• “A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.” -- Admiral Richard E. Byrd
  
  
• “There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.” -- Adyashanti
  
  
• “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.” -- Aeschylus
  
  
• “Wisdom comes through suffering.” -- Aeschylus
  
  
• “Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.” -- Aesop
  
  
• “It’s not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” -- Agnes Repplier
  
  
• “Rules cannot substitute for character.” -- Alan Greenspan
  
  
• “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” -- Alan Watts
  
  
• “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” -- Albert Camus
  
  
• “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “I would rather be an optimist and a fool than be a pessimist and correct.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the product of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “What you can't imagine, you can't discover.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -- Albert Schweitzer
  
  
• “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” -- Aldous Huxley
  
  
• “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” -- Aldous Huxley
  
  
• “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” -- Aldous Huxley
  
  
• “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.” -- Aldous Huxley
  
  
• “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” -- Alexander Chase
  
  
• “Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.” -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• “Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers.” -- Alfred Tennyson
  
  
• “Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.” -- Algernon Black
  
  
• “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” -- Anais Nin
  
  
• “Defiled by passion, the mind is not released. Defiled by ignorance, wisdom does not develop. Thus from the fading of passion is there release of awareness. From the fading of ignorance is there release of wisdom.” -- Anguttara Nikaya
  
  
• “Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” -- Anne Bradstreet
  
  
• “An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"” -- Annie Dillard
  
  
• “I put it to you that both you and I are atheists. It is just that I believe in one fewer gods than you. When you finally come to understand why you don’t believe in all those other gods then you will understand why I don’t believe in yours.” -- Anon
  
  
• “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” -- Anon
  
  
• “A man may be born to wealth, but wisdom comes only with length of days.” -- Anon
  
  
• “Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.” -- Anon
  
  
• “Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.” -- Anon
  
  
• “Humility and knowledge breed wisdom.” -- Anon
  
  
• “Knowledge is knowing that the street is one way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.” -- Anon
  
  
• “You can stay at home and be happily introspective, or you can make the choice to step out and be the Butterfly that begins the tempest that changes the world.” -- Anon
  
  
• “When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” -- Anthony Robbins
  
  
• “Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” -- Aristotle
  
  
• “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -- Aristotle
  
  
• “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” -- Aristotle Onassis
  
  
• “Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?” -- Arthur C. Clarke
  
  
• “If you want to make someone angry tell him a lie; if you want to make him furious, tell him the truth. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.” -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  
   Philosopher, 1788-1860
  
  
• “Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness are, by their own nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.” -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  
  
• “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” -- ARTICLE 19. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
   Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, in Paris.
  
  
• “That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call “free will” is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom. [This is] the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and character.” -- Ayn Rand
  
  
• “By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.” -- Ben Franklin
  
  
• “The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” -- Ben Stein
  
  
• “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” -- Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
• “The fool wonders, the wise man asks.” -- Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
• “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” -- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• “A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.” -- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• “He is a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.” -- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• “Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.” -- Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• “Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning...and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.” -- Bergen Evans
  
  
• “Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.” -- Berthold Auerbach
  
  
• “Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.” -- Bertolt Brecht
  
  
• “Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.” -- Bertrand Russell
  
  
• “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” -- Bertrand Russell
  
  
• “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.” -- Bertrand Russell
  
  
• “One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.” -- Bertrand Russell
  
  
• “I feel like a bird out of it's cage! After reading several chapters I have enjoyed 'relationships' the most. I realize my mindset has been the way I have observed those around me acting. Relationships describes one facet of my life that has seemed to hold me down. I defend the laws by which relationships is voiced to the receiver. The step by step way all the chapters are written has changed the way I think. Relationships are so important to me that I desire to participate in the new ideas I have been going over in my mind. I have always wanted to follow all the rules. But, on this issue I wish to change a few things in my life. If given the chance, I will.” -- Betty Darlene Paccio, Hermitage, Arkansas, USA
  
  
• “You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.” -- Bhuddist Teaching
  
  
• “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” -- Bill Gates
  
  
• “Wisdom is the constant questioning of where you are. And when you stop wanting to know, you're dead.” -- Billy Connolly
  
   Daily Express, 29th October 2008
  
  
• “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” -- Blaise Pascal
  
  
• “There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.” -- Bourke Coekran
  
  
• “Knowledge cuts up the world. Wisdom makes it whole.” -- Brazilian proverb
  
  
• “Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.” -- Brendan Francis
  
  
• “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “Look for good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “Excellence is not a destination, it is a continuous journey that never ends.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.” -- Buddha
  
  
• “You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.” -- Buddhist teaching
  
  
• “Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.” -- C. Wright Mills
  
  
• “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” -- C.S. Lewis
  
   They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962), p. 63
  
  
• “Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.” -- Carl Jung
  
  
• “There is no birth of consciousness without pain.” -- Carl Jung
  
   The Development of Personality (Collected Works of CG Jung Vol.17)
  
  
• “Any mental effort, like the conscious process itself, is so much strain for the ordinary man that he invariably prefers the simple, even when it does not happen to be the truth.” -- Carl Jung
  
   The Development of Personality (Collected Works of CG Jung Vol.17)
  
  
• “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” -- Carl Sandburg
  
  
• “It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.” -- Carl von Clausewitz
  
  
• “How Life Really Works was very interesting, especially the subjects of Health, Banks and the Media.
  
  I am truly horrified at doctors' lack of knowledge of health. They seem to be little more than drug pushers for the mega rich Drug Companies.
  I can't believe our economic system either. We have been brainwashed to believe that 'economics' is beyond the average person to comprehend. All it is is a huge con. The Governments have given a licence to the Banks to print off money, or give 'credit' out of thin air (97% of our economy is non-existent), and then charge interest - interest on nothing!!!! And we all fall for it. Amazing.
  
  As for the media - after reading Media Monopoly, it is horrifying to realise that almost ALL of the media, from TV, radio, newspapers, films, music, etc. etc. is all run by just a few Corporations.
  
  Thank you. I'm looking forward to future communication from you.” -- Carol Copping, London, England
  
  
• “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” -- Catherine the Great
  
  
• “Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.” -- Cato
  
  
• “What is a good man?
  Simply one whose life is useful to the world.
  And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others.
  There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness.
  These are the worst of all.” -- Chang Chao, 15th Century
  
  
• “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -- Charles A Beard
  
  
• “You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.” -- Charles Buxton
  
  
• “I only wish I had found Fresh Wisdom a year ago. After learning a lot from different (web) sites all over the world, I couldn't put it all together until now.” -- Charles G. Dadley Jr., Lowell, MA, USA
  
  
• “I only wish I found How Life Really Works a year ago. With the wisdom I have acquired, through study, I couldn't put it all together until now. I can't wait to see what my life will be like after the book and beyond. Thank You.” -- Charles G. Dadley Jr., Lowell, MA, USA
  
  
• “Purpose is what gives life a meaning.” -- Charles H. Perkhurst
  
  
• “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” -- Charles Kingsley
  
  
• “He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician.” -- Chinese Proverb
  
  
• “I just wanted to thank you and let you know that I not only enjoyed How Life Really Works, but have a new appreciation for the truly important things in life.
  
  That said, I wasn't thrilled with some of the things I read at first, until I took time to open my mind and really think about what was being said. By the time I finished the book, I found myself with a deeper understanding of how I view the world and what is truly important in life as well as how we are to go about certain things to make life more meaningful for ourselves, and by living in a way that lets others see the beauty within, so they, too, may shine.
  
  PS I am getting married this year, and will apply not only the relationship lessons, but also a very special ceremony that will truly be beautiful. Thanks so much for the lessons. Looking forward to further communication and studies!!!!!” -- Chris Johnstone, Port Charlotte, Florida, USA
  
  
• “If the truth is that ugly -- which it is -- then we do have to be careful about the way that we tell the truth. But to say somehow that telling the truth should be avoided because people may respond badly to the truth
  seems bizarre to me.” -- Chuck Skoro, Deacon, St. Paul's Catholic Church
  
  
• “The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.” -- Cicero
  
  
• “An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.” -- Cicero
  
  
• “I just wanted to tell you about the incredible impact How Life Really Works has had on my life. I always knew that I am an awesome human being with enormous potential, but have always felt ‘held back’, stifled, somehow chained. How Life Really Works has helped me to break free of so many shackles that have prevented me from living life to it’s full. It has helped me to understand so much about my past choices and ‘mistakes’, and to actually change the way I think and live my life. Those close to me have noticed the change and comment on it! I now live without guilt; am happy and content every day of my life; don’t judge those I meet but have a new capacity for love; have that incredible feeling of living with my ‘eyes wide open’; but most of all have discovered the purpose of my life. You have no idea how this has transformed me! I wake up every day with a bounce in my step and anticipation in my heart. I no longer drag myself out of bed, dreading the day ahead and the boredom of life. I know exactly what I want and what I need to achieve every day. I am no longer distracted from this by other people’s needs and agendas. I now truly know the meaning of what it is to be FREE.
  
  In case this sounds too vague, here are some of the practical changes I have made since reading How Life Really Works:
  
  - Sold my house and bought gold coins with the proceeds (in 2005);
  - Greatly reduced my material possessions;
  - Formed a new set of morals that are true to MY heart;
  - Escaped formalised religion – and understood why I always felt so uncomfortable with it;
  - Left my career and became a full-time writer;
  - Became free to pursue the love relationship I have always wanted and am now engaged to the love of my life after struggling for 6 years to make sense of our relationship.
  
  I could never thank you enough!” -- Claire Fivaz, Johannesburg, South Africa
  
  
• “The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” -- Claude Levi-Strauss
  
  
• “Life is like riding a bicycle, you don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.” -- Claude Pepper
  
  
• “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
  The man of benevolence never worries;
  The man of courage is never afraid.” -- Confucius
  
  
• “The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.” -- Confucius
  
  
• “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” -- Confucius
  
  
• “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” -- Confucius
  
  
• “Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.” -- Conrad Hilton
  
  
• “Lack of tact merely underlies the absence of wisdom.” -- Cyril Alvarez Adriaansen
  
  
• “The longest journey is the journey inwards of him who has chosen his destiny, who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.” -- Dag Hammarskjold
  
  
• “Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.” -- Dalai Lama
  
  
• “Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to contribute to each other on the level of understanding and of practical benefit.” -- Dalai Lama
  
  
• “Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.” -- David Augsburger
  
  
• “There's nothing the mind believes that isn't erroneous at a higher level of awareness.” -- David Hawkins, M.D. Ph.D.
  
  
• “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” -- David Hume
  
  
• “Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird.” -- David McCullough
  
  
• “Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.” -- Deepak Chopra
  
  
• “When I was lost and alone I finally took the time to know myself. The discovery was worth the discomfort.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “To live with dignity we must first discover our fundamental beliefs and then live by them.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Never depend on the admiration of others. There is no strength in it. Personal merit cannot be derived from an external source. It is not to be found in your personal associations, nor can it be found in the regard of other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you, or share your enthusiasms. Grow up! Who cares what other people think about you!” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Prudent people look beyond the incident itself and seek to form the habit of putting it to good use.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Begin at once a program of self-mastery. But start modestly, with the little things that bother you. Has your child spilled something? Have you misplaced your wallet? Say to yourself, 'Coping calmly with this inconvenience is the price I pay for my inner serenity, for freedom from perturbation; you don't get something for nothing.'” -- deism.com
  
  
• “It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion, and unchecked desire.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Instead of averting your eyes from the painful events of life, look at them squarely and contemplate them often. By facing the realities of death, infirmity, loss, and disappointment, you free yourself of illusions and false hopes and you avoid miserable, envious thoughts.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth. Return and return again to what is essential and worthy.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so we lose our hold on our life's purpose.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Why then do you feel no shame in giving your precious mind over to any person who might wish to influence you? Think twice before you give up your own mind to someone who may revile you, leaving you confused and upset.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “When we remember that our aim is spiritual progress, we return to striving to be our best selves. This is how happiness is won.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Evil does not naturally dwell in the world, in events, or in people. Evil is a by-product of forgetfulness, laziness, or distraction: it arises when we lose sight of our true aim in life.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Happiness and blessedness do not belong to abundance of riches or exalted position or offices or power, but to freedom from pain and gentleness of feeling and a state of mind that sets limits that are in accordance with nature.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “It is impossible for the one who instills fear to remain free from fear.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “A person is made unhappy either by fear or by endless and vain desire. The person who curbs these can attain for himself the blessed gift of reason.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Great abundance is heaped up as the result of brutalizing labor, but a miserable life is the result.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “The mean soul is puffed up by successes, but brought down by adversity.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “By love of true philosophy we are delivered from every disturbing and painful desire.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “That which creates unsurpassable joy is the removal of a great evil.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Mankind has to get out of violence only through nonviolence.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “To a true artist, only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “A reformer has to sail not with the current. Very often he has to go against it even though it may cost him his life.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “The acquisition of the spirit of nonresistance is a matter of long training in self-denial and appreciation of the hidden forces within ourselves. It changes one's outlook on life . . . It is the greatest force because it is the highest expression of the soul.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “When we see we have gone wrong, it is our duty to retrace our footsteps and proceed again by the right path.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Think of three things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Speak little, do much.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “In the present weak state of human nature, surrounded as we are on all sides with ignorance and error, it little becomes poor, fallible man to be positive and dogmatical in his opinions.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. Here is a sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Nothing shall warp me from the belief that everyone is a lover of truth.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Anger is as much a mark of weakness as is grief; in both of them men receive a wound, and submit to a defeat.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Firstly, avoid all actions that are haphazard or purposeless; and secondly, let every action aim solely at the common good.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “For a life that is sound and secure, cultivate a thorough insight into things and discover their essence, matter, and cause; put your whole heart into doing what is just, and speaking what is true; and for the rest, know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Why do you hunger for length of days? Is it to experience sensations and desires, or increase or cessation of growth? Is it to make use of the powers of speech or of thought? Does any of these things seem really worth coveting? Then if you think them beneath your notice, press on towards the final goal of all - which is the following of reason and of God. But to prize this, you must remember, is incompatible with any feelings of resentment that death will rob you of the others.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other and I trust I never shall.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “To teach us how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “In life generally, the contemplation and study of Nature are far superior to the whole range of other human activities.” -- deism.com
  
  
• “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” -- Democritus
  
  
• “There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.” -- Democritus
  
  
• “We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.” -- Denis Waitley
  
  
• “One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.” -- Denis Waitley
  
  
• “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” -- Dennis Waitley
  
  
• “It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” -- Dick Cavett
  
  
• “It is no longer enough to be smart— all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.” -- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
  
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• “Normal resistance to disease is directly dependent upon adequate nutrition. Normal resistance to disease never comes out of pill boxes. Adequate nutrition is the cradle of normal resistance, the playground of normal immunity, the workshop of good health, and the laboratory of long life.” -- Dr. Charles Mayo
  
  
• “When the voice and vision on the inside are more profound than all the opinions on the outside, you’ve begun to master your life.” -- Dr. John Demartini
  
  
• “Contempt, prior to complete investigation, enslaves men to ignorance.” -- Dr. John Whitman Ray
  
  
• “The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.” -- Dr. Wayne Dyer
  
  
• “A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” -- Dresden James
  
  
• “Our species is far too clever to survive without wisdom.” -- E.F. Schumacker
  
  

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