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We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- 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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
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
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
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
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
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
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
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
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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