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When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
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Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
A politician needs the ability to
foretell what is going to happen
tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards
to explain why it didn't happen.
- Winston Churchill
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success is never so interesting as struggle
- Willa Cather
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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
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
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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