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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
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
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
When a man assumes a public trust
he should consider himself a public property.
- Thomas Jefferson
Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail.
Without it, nothing can succeed.
- 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
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
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
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
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
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
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
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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