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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it?
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it?
If not, we should be sincere enough to admit
that we love evil too well to give it up.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
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
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Sometimes I think we're alone.
Sometimes I think we're not.
In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A reflection of life is not life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Everything is not as it appears to be.
- Proverb
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
A contradiction can not exist in reality.
Not in part, nor in whole.
- Terry Goodkind
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
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
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
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