Truth - Quotes

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice. - Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. - James Russell Lowell

The ultimate truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They are not the Way. - Bodhidharma

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some truths may be proclaimed upon the housetop; others may be spoken by the fireside; still others must be whispered in the ear of a friend. - Rossiter Johnson

Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. - Unknown

The inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of Truth which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. - Francis Bacon

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold. - Aristotle

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The most effectual method of expelling error, is, not to meet it sword in hand, but gradually to instil great truths, with which it cannot easily coexist. - William E. Channing

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. - Ann Landers

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth. - Austin O’Malley

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. - George Eliot

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. - Rebecca West

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. - Richard P. Feynman

Life is ...

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Life is like an elevator: on your way up, sometimes, you have to stop and let some people off. - Unknown

Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity. - Fritjof Capra

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. - Viktor Frankl

Life is so simple when you're just doing your job. - Jeanette Winterson

Life IS the gift you were given, so stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and you’ll gift yourself abundantly. - Michelle Geaney

Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing. - Yiddish Proverb

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. - Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to waste. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing. - Eric Davis

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed. - Evan Esar

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. - Henry Louis Mencken

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The Paradox of Deception

I came across this article on lies/deception in my scrap book. Thought I would share it here.

Never mind who is telling lies. The real question is, why are people deceived so easily?

From the half-truths that proliferate in the market-place to the deceits of a lover, from the white lies of everyday life to the denials of the nation’s leaders, deception is pervasive in daily interactions – and, usually, it succeeds.

“We are sort of like Diogenes looking for that one honest person out there, and in looking for that one honest person, we are more likely to be duped,” says Mr. Chris Wetzel, professor of psychology at Rhodes College in Memphis.

He had been analysing a fundamental paradox of these dishonest times: How come people so often see deception coming and still get blindsided by it?

The answer, he and other psychologists who study deceit say, is that suckers are born every minute. In fact, one’s mental health and the social fabric of society practically depend on it.

“We are predisposed to believe.” Says Prof. Wetzel, adding that, except for the most cynical or paranoid people, people live by what is called “the truth bias”. People generally want to believe something is true.

While that proves day after day to be a shaky assumption, it is nonetheless a prerequisite to comprehending what someone is saying.

Most people “don’t have the energy or time to go to the next level of comprehension and question something’s validity,” says Prof. Wetzel. “The busier we are, the less likely we’ll do it.”

To assume what people are telling is true also goes a long way towards not upsetting the apple cart of social interaction. To assume the opposite creates chaos.

Brad Blandford believes people are incapable of knowing when others are lying unless they themselves are totally honest.

“We’ll buy anything. Lying is of epidemic proportions,” he says, blaming it for much of the anxiety, depression and psychosomatic illnesses so prevalent in society today. “So, it turns out that everyone is just guessing about everyone else.”

In many ways, the dynamic of telling and believing lies is what makes truth more of a stranger than fiction, as Mart Twain put it.

Accepting even suspect lies turns out to be the path of least resistance many people choose to follow. Confronting a suspected lie can make a scene, and a lot of people aren’t willing to go through that trouble. Once we believe we’re being fed a line, it is more difficult and socially awkward to call someone on a lie than to let it go or give them the benefit of the doubt.

Further complicating matters is the element of unconscious collusion – when the deceived prefers the lie to the truth.

Psychologist Bella DePaulo found that about a quarter of lies told to those who are close are “altruistic lies” – the no-you-don’t-look-fat kind of fibs supposedly contrived for the person’s own good. They are lying to spare someone else’s feelings.

And there are even the more serious lies, she says. “Take, for example, an affair. You don’t know for sure if it is happening, and you wish it is not happening. And if you see through the lie to the truth that is being hidden, it can be a disaster.”

Besides, people simply are not good at detecting lies. Despite studies trying to identify the tell-tale behaviours that accompany a lie, “there is no perfectly reliable sign of lying, no Pinocchio’s nose”, says Ms DePaulo.

Part of that is because different people tell lies differently. And the very behaviours and attributes that make someone seem to be believable are also what she has found common among those who tell the most lies.

“If you feel really sure someone is lying,” warns Ms DePaulo, “it is just likely they are telling the truth.”

Mind - Quotes

The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds. - Unknown

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. - Unknown

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. - Seneca

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. - Simon Mawer

The subconscious mind is a mental fireless cooker where ideas simmer and develop. - Unknown

The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men. - Unknown

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. - John Godfrey Saxe

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have. - Christopher Paolini

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there. - Henry Ward Beecher

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. - Eric Hoffer

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. - Napoleon Hill

There are so many powers within the mind of man that have yet to be tapped, that thinking of its possible limitations may be considered a joke. - Unknown

There are quiet places also in the mind.... But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately – to put a stop to the quietness. - Aldous Huxley

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. - Albert Einstein

This mind of ours, like the earth beneath our feet, teems with exhaustless riches. The conditions of development only are needed. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind, have the greatest power. - Horace Mann

Life - Quotes

Life is a combination of adjustments and compromises. You adjust when someone wants to be with you and compromise when you want to be with someone. - Unknown

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. - Jean Racine

Life is a constant process of dying. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. - Jeannette Walls

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. - B. Alan Wallace

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. - Unknown

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it. - Susan Meddaugh

Life is indeed more agreeable by alternate occupation and leisure. - Demophilus

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. - Hans Christian Andersen

Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it. - Unknown

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Proverbs, Aphorisms, Axioms, Maxims...

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. - Polish Proverb

Dead men tell no tales. - J. Wilson

Don’t spill the beans. - Unknown

Better a live dog than a dead lion. - Paul Hoffman

Cold hands, warm heart. - V.S. Lean

Always be prepared. - Unknown

Keep your chin up. - Unknown

One swallow does not make a summer. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Pick your poison. - Unknown

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. - Chinese Proverb

Grin and bear it. - Unknown

Eventually, everything goes away. - Elizabeth Gilbert

All in good time. - Horace

No matter how long the Winter, Spring is sure to follow. - Proverb

To each his own. - Cicero

When you throw dirt, you lose ground. - Mexican Proverb

Seize the day. - Unknown

You win some, you lose some. - American Proverb

Two heads are better than one. - Polish Proverb

Save for a rainy day. - Aesop

Easy does it. - T. Taylor

Love - Quotes

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

How strange too, and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day. - Graham Greene

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love. - Thich Nhat Hanh

It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love. - David Levithan

Love can’t mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That’s the only real path to love. - Leon Uris

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. - Kahlil Gibran

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn’t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment and a promise. - Unknown

Love is forgiving time and time again, sometimes against better judgement. Love is what can drive us to do things we would never once consider. - Unknown

Love is like an ice cube, the harder you hold on to it, the faster it will disappear, and all you’ll have in your hand will be tears of crushed love. - Unknown

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Life - Quotes

The whole of life, from the moment you were born till the moment you die is a process of learning. - Krishnamurti

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. - Diego Val

A satisfied life is better than a successful life because our success is measured by others, but our satisfaction is measured by our own soul mind and heart. - Unknown

Sometimes life is about your dreams, hopes, and visions for the future. But sometimes it is just about putting one foot in front of the other. And that’s okay. - Unknown

You will never fully grasp the depth of life’s richness. For the more of it your experience, the more of it there is. - Ralph Marston

Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you’ll never get the same moment twice. - Unknown

Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always beautiful. - Unknown

No one can build the bridge, over which you must cross the river of life, except you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. - Paulo Coelho

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Quote Worthy

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. - Alfred North Whitehead

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dali

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. - George Henry Lewes

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George Orwell

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind. - Jean de la Bruyere

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. - Albert Memmi

Never look down on anyone unless you are admiring their shoes. - Unknown

All serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty

Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults. - Chinese Proverbs

No man ever yet became great by imitation. - Samuel Johnson

Every perspective has limitations – something to keep in mind whenever we believe our own viewpoint to be the only rue and valid one. - Unknown

Live every moment, laugh ever day, love beyond words. - Unknown

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Truth - Quotes

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. - Ismail Haniyeh

Some sorts of truth are truer than others. - Jack London

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes. - Unknown

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; and beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Still another condition of knowing the truth is, I think, the willingness to make some sacrifice for it. - Samuel Longfellow

Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit; swifter than arrows, the light of the truth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. - Edgar Watson Howe

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. - Glen Duncan

Telling the truth is like taking herbs in lieu of drugs. It does not taste well or cure fast, but it works better in the long term and gives fewer side effects to the patient. - Unknown

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. - Max Born

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth. - Ivan Panin

The colour of truth is grey. - Andre Gide

The dissection of the false will never reveal Truth. - Unknown

The dwelling place of truth is in the inner man. And if you discover your own nature as subject to change, then go beyond that nature. Press on toward the source from which the light of reason itself is kindled. - Unknown

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. - William James

The greatest truths are the simplest. - Eliza Cook

Life - Quotes

Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. - Dean Koontz

A hungry stomach, an empty pocket and a broken heart can teach you the best lesson of life. - Unknown

You don’t always need a logical reason for doing everything in your life. Do it because you want to; because it’s fun’ because it makes you happy. - Unknown

Living in favourable and unfavourable situation is call ‘part of life’, but smiling in all those situations is called ‘art of living’. - Unknown

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light. - Bryant McGill

Life without endeavour is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. - Japanese Proverb

No matter how skilfully a man plays the game of life, there is but one test of his ability – did he win? - Charles James Lever

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it. - Les Brown

If life can remove someone you never dream of losing, it can replace them with someone you never dreamt of having. - Unknown

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone’s reasons in the same box. - Kevin Spacey

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You - Quotes

You are part of a puzzle in someone's life. You may never know where you fit. But, someone's life may never be complete without you in it. - Bonnie Arbor

You might think you don’t matter in this world. But because of you someone has a favourite mug to drink their tea out of each morning that you bought them. Someone hears a song on the radio and it reminds them of you. Someone has read a book you recommended to them and got lost in its pages. Someone has remembered a joke you told them and smiled to themselves on the bus. Someone has tried on a top and felt beautiful because you complimented them on it. Someone now likes themselves that little bit more because you made a passing comment that made them feel good. Never think you don’t have an impact. Your fingerprints can’t be wiped away from the little marks of kindness that you’ve left behind. - Unknown

You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It’s not like you have forever, so don’t waste any of your seconds, don’t throw even one of your moments away. - C. JoyBell C.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again. - Eric Roth

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The Mind - Quotes

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas Huxley

The empires of the future are empires of the mind. - Winston Churchill

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. - Aristotle

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. - Sigmund Freud

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain. - Unknown

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

The mind is nothing less than a garden of inestimable value which man should strive to cultivate. - William Scott Downey

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him – the reasoning mind. - Ayn Rand

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it – as long as you really believe 100 percent. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them. - Walt Disney

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included. - Bodhidharma

The mind is unstable and flighty. It wanders wherever it desires. Therefore it is good to control the mind.  A disciplined mind brings happiness. - Buddha

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. - William Hazlit

The mind of man is like an unbroken horse that would go anywhere except where you wanted it to. - Unknown

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest. - Seneca

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark - Thomas Paine

The mind ought to sometimes be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. - Phaedrus

Life - Quotes

In the Game of Life, sometimes people kick us as if we are football; but they don’t know that they themselves are sending us near the Goal. - Unknown

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes, you can if you will. - Charles R. Swindoll

If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life. - Terry Pratchett

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. - C. Everett Koop

Life doesn’t allow for us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow for us to live each day better than our last. - Unknown

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. - C. Neil Strait

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. - Vince Lombardi

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. - Anthony Robbins

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Cognitive Dissonance

This is why people get upset when their beliefs are challenged. A mental conflict occurs when beliefs are contradicted by new information. This conflict activates areas of the brain involved in personal identity and emotional response to threats. The brain's alarms go off when a person feels threatened on a deeply personal and emotional level, causing them to shut down and disregard any rational evidence that contradicts what they previously regarded as 'truth'.

Proverbs, Axioms, Maxims ...

As a man is, so he sees. - William Blake

Eat to live, not live to eat. - Socrates

Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced. - South African Proverb

When one sheep leads the way all the rest follow. - Chinese Proverb

The fat is in the fire. - John Heywood

All is fair in love and war. - Sun Tzu

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. - Unknown

Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson

Every picture tells a story. - Unknown

Cutting off a mule's ears doesn't make it a horse. - Creole

Little by little does the trick. - Aesop

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. - George Herbert

Lightning strikes the tallest trees. - English Proverb

Every dog is a lion at home. - Italian Proverb

Ill weeds grow fast. - John Heywood

Adapt the remedy to the disease. - Chinese Proverb

Roll with the punches. - Unknown

Keep a stiff upper lip. - Unknown

Swords and guns have no eyes. - Chinese Proverb

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Humor

Love - Quotes

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other. - Christian Nestell Bovee

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. - Harold Lokes

Love is when someone breaks our heart into a million pieces, and the most amazing thing is that we still love them with all the broken pieces of our heart. - Unknown

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. - Leo Buscaglia

True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh

You can't make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to the person to realize your worth. - Unknown

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love. - Fernando Pessoa

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny. - Sergei Lukyanenko

The one who loves you will never leave you, because even if there are 100 reasons to give up, he will find one reason to hold on. - Unknown

Love is like a word written in Chinese; most of us don’t understand what it truly means. - Rodney M

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you… but trusting them not to. - Unknown

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Life - Quotes

Life ... is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. - Dean Koontz

In the Game of Life, sometimes people kick us as if we are football; but they don’t know that they themselves are sending us near the Goal. - Unknown

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes, you can if you will. -Charles R. Swindoll

If you have a complex life, make it simple; if you have a simple life, continue it that way! - Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life. - Terry Pratchett

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. - C. Everett Koop

Life doesn’t allow for us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow for us to live each day better than our last. - Unknown

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. - C. Neil Strait

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. - Vince Lombardi

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. - Anthony Robbins

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. - Publius Terence

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Humour

Instead of saying “Have a nice day”, I think I’ll start saying, “Have the day you deserve”. You know, let Karma sort that shit out. - Unknown

Marry someone who can cook. Looks go away, but hunger don’t. - Unknown

Silence is golden. Unless you have kids – then it’s suspicious. - Unknown

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. - Doug Larson

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. - Laurence J. Peter

Never look down on anyone unless you are admiring their shoes. - Unknown

Duct tape can’t fix stupid. But it can muffle the sound. - Unknown

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t. - Louis C. K.

Never in the history of calming down has anyone ever calmed down by being told to calm down. - Unknown

If someone says, “You’re gonna regret that in the morning,” I sleep in ‘til noon. Problem solved. - Unknown

To me, ‘drink responsibly’ means don’t spill it. - Unknown

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Quote Worthy

Never think that what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there who needs what you have to give. - Unknown

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions. - George Washington

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. - Thomas Carlyle

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. - Nikolai Lenin

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. - Lance Armstrong

Racism is something that people can transcend through friendship. - Vincent Rocchio

Certainly, every man can be courteous, for it costs nothing, and is within the ability of all. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

You cannot clap with one hand alone. - John Taylor Wood

Dare to be wrong and to dream. - Friederich von Schiller

No one reaches a high position without daring. - Publilius Syrus

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Søren Kierkegaard More Quotes Here - And the book Quote Worthy

Truth - Quotes

People can’t change truth, but the truth can change people. - Unknown

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. - George R.R. Martin

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. - Andy Rooney

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends. - Aristotle

Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, the mind overlooks the plain truth of the moment. - Lao Tzu

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. - Dan Brown

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. - Joe Abercrombie

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. - Unknown

Questions are key to door of truth. - Charlie Chan

Rather let us suffer for speaking the truth, than that truth should suffer for want of speaking. - Eliza Cook

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. - Henry David Thoreau

Searching for the truth is easy. Accepting the truth can be hard. - Unknown

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. - Jane Austen

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. - Baltasar Gracian

Some people do not mind the lies told about them. It is the truth that bothers them. - Unknown

Some things are too terrible to be true. - Bob Dylan

Zeal - Quotes

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Blind zeal is a sword in a madman's hands. - Flaxel

Every creed has its zealots. - Zosimus

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. - Isaac Barrow

Too much zeal spoils all. - Diocletian

True zeal is a soft and gentle flame that will not scorch anyone's hand. - Cudworth

Zeal in good cause is just. - C. P. Villiers

Zeal is an edge-tool, which children in understanding should not meddle withal; and yet it most frequently possesseth the weakest minds. - John Tillotson

Zeal is an enchantment. - Zamoyski

Zeal is one of the dynamic forces for accomplishment. This is more than talk, more than declaration and perception; it is putting your entire being into what you are doing for maximum output. - Bilson Kings

Zeal is the power that keeps you moving to your destiny even when you are alone. - Anthony Mwami

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. - Pasquier Quesnel

Zeal should not outweigh discretion. - P. Jarrige

Zeal without judgment is like gunpowder in the hands of a child. - Eliza Cook

Love - Quotes

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love. - Leo Buscagalia

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. - Hoosier Farmer

Don’t give up on love because there is always someone who loves you EVEN it’s not the person you were hoping for. - Unknown

If you love someone, you’ll be willing to give up everything for them. But if they love you, they’ll never ask you to. - Unknown

Before someone’s tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today. - Michelle C. Ustaszeski

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves man from catching the complaint the second time. - Honore de Balzac

Love is the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. - M. Scott Peck

Loving someone is a leap of faith. You are giving them your heart and trusting them not to break it. - Unknown

Love is timeless, it’s the memory of yesterday, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. - Unknown

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out - Rumi

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love. - Alexander the Great

Love is when you sit beside someone, doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy. - Unknown

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Life - Quotes

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety. - Bryant McGill

Life's joys and sorrows meet us every day, but some are blinded by their tears of sorrow and see no joy. - S. Moore

Occasionally ask, “What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today? - Robert Brault

The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. - Tibetan Proverb

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. - Zig Ziglar

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realized how blessed you are. - Unknown

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. - Abraham Hicks

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. - Bertrand Russell

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. - Chuck Palahniuk

All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives. - Tony Blauer

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Tony Robbins

It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. - Shauna Niequist

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Humour

Humour

Life - Quotes

Man is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing in life, including our circumstances or potential, is fixed. Reality is bendable to our will. - Brendon Burchard

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. - Jimmy Buffett

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll

So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll have tomorrow for having felt regret today. - Fernando Pessoa

Sometimes, life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It’s what you do with those second chances that counts. - Dave Wilson

Sometimes, life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes, you have to take a step back and realize what’s important in your life, what you can live with, but more importantly, what you can’t live without. - Unknown

The best philosophy in life is to keep the mind happy. We don’t know whether success gives happiness or not, but a happy mind can always lead to success. - Unknown

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find. - Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston S. Churchill

The greatest things in life – truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion – are already inside us, and they’re all free. - Yanni

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Science

Food for Thought

Humour

Humour / Meme

Love - Quotes

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. - Gwendoline Christie

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Wayne Dyer

Never rush into falling in love, because love never runs out; Let love be the one to knock at your door. Besides true love is worth waiting for. - Unknown

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. - Sai Baba

I don’t think, until you’ve actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up. - Felicity Kendal

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing. - Bruce Forsyth

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi

A relationship of true love is one where both people have an equal desire to make one another happy. - Unknown

Everybody loves you when you love everybody. No one love you if you do not love any one. - Unknown

Love is like a bed of roses, which means love brings about two things pain and happiness. - Unknown

Before you set out to love someone else, you must muster the courage to love yourself. - Shriyaa

Love has a unique property which none else has: It’s both a strength and a weakness! - Unknown

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Humour

Humour

Humour

Life - Quotes

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. - Unknown

Every time you subtract Negative from your life, you make room for more Positive! - Unknown

Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better! - Nehali Lalwani

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder. - John McLeod

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. - Unknown

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. - Soren Kierkegaard

Life is a beach. Sometimes you end up with a little sand in your pants. - Unknown

Nothing in life promised except death. - Kanye West

A useless life is an early death. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must live as he can. - Maxwell Anderson

We often miss the end of life by having no object before us. - Henry F. Kletzing

Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. - C. C. Lewis

If you are good, life is good. - Roald Dahl

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. - Latin Proverb

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot

Life doesn’t retreat. - Dan Simmons

It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have not lost all when you have life. - Edward Counsel

Life thunders on. - Lola Ridge

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Mind - Quotes

The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind. - Wellins Calcott

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Rene Descartes

The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind. - Unknown

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle

The human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. - Samuel Richardson

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition. - Isaac Asimov

The idle mind knows not what it wants. - Ennius

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein

The knowing mind is active in attending, selecting and interpreting; but it must attend to, select from and interpret what is presented to it; and therefore, it must be passive as well as active. - Unknown

The mind ain't nothing without the old body tagging along to follow things through. - Sam Shepard

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. - James Russell Lowell

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. - St. Augustine

The mind grows by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

The mind has an extraordinary power to create illusion through belief through escapes, through dogmas. - J. Krishnamurti

The mind has no kitchen to do its dirty work in while the parlour remains clean. - Henry Ward Beecher

The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. - Michel Montaigne

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. - David Mamet

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. - Eckhart Tolle

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. - John Milton

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost everything; if ill-packed, next to nothing. - Augustus William Hare & Julius Charles Hare

You - Quotes

Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. - Wallace D. Wattles

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is – an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness, you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colourful YOU. - Mandy Hale

One day it just clicks. You realize what’s important and what isn’t. You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself. You realize how far you’ve come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that you would never recover. And you smile. You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you’ve fought to become. - Unknown

Sometimes life can be very painful. It gets complicated at the worst of times and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. But you have to keep trying. You have to push through all that hurts; work past all the painful memories. Because sometimes the things that hurt you the most are that things that make you the strongest. A life without experience is no life at all. Never stop yourself from living, from loving, from hoping and dreaming. You deserve it. - Unknown

Win / Winning / Winners- Quotes

A quitter never wins – and a winner never quits. - Napoleon Hill

A winner is someone who recognizes his talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. - Larry Bird

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. - Arthur Ashe

Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field. - Carl Deuker

He who dares wins. - American Proverb

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner. - Walter Payton

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt

It’s impossible for me to applaud your successes when my hands are too busy patting myself on the back. But if I clap for you, and you pat my back, we can both feel like winners. - Jarod Kintz

It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. - Paul “Bear” Bryant

My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win. - Zig Ziglar

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss. - Dough Williams

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. - Mark Gorman

Our skill is not shown in winning the game with good cards, but to make the best of whatever cards are placed in our hands. - G. Forster

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. - Donald Trump

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you're behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Arthur Ashe

Slow and steady wins the race. - Aesop

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner. - Lady Gaga

The difference in winning and losing is most often ... not quitting. - Walt Disney

The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!! - Unknown

The game itself is bigger than the winning. - Dejan Stojanovic

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance. - Pete Abrams

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. - Pele

Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali

We like winning. We've tried both and winning is better. - Lane Kirkland

When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less. - Paul Brown

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics. - Lance Armstrong

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks. - Pete Rose

Winners are people who aren’t afraid to take a chance now and then. Losers sit around and wait for the odds to improve. Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting. - Aldous Huxley

Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. - Bryce Courtenay

Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. - Amby Burfoot

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself. - Roger Staubach

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. - Dianne Feinstein

Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else. - Vince Lombardi

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day. - Phil Jackson

You can only become a winner if you are willing to walk over the edge. - Ronald E. McNair

You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. - Napoleon Hill

Love - Quotes

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Wilder

Grasping at love is like trying to retain a handful of sand; the tighter one squeezes, the more sand escapes. - Corvus

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. - Charles Dickens

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. - Katherine Mansfield

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. - Mother Theresa

Every person has to love at least one bad partner in their lives to be truly thankful for the right one. - Unknown

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love. - Igor Stravinsky

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. - Khalil Gibran

I love it when I see old people together, because it makes me believe that true LOVE exists. - Unknown

If you have to convince someone you’re right for them, then they aren’t right for you. - Unknown

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Life - Quotes

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well. - Baron Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. - Cecil B. De Mille

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. - Thomas S. Monson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. - Don Williams

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

There is nothing more grey, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. - Jaron Lanier

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize that it is play. - Alan Watts

Those who died yesterday had plans for this morning. And those who died this morning had plans for tonight. Don’t take life for granted. - Unknown

To grant all a man’s wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at. - P.B. Kerr

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Proverbs / Maxims / Axioms...

A man with a cough cannot conceal himself. - African Proverb

Some things are better left unsaid. - Unknown

After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile. - T. Cogan

Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows. - Australian Aborigine Saying

Great oaks from little acorns grow. - Chaucer

A clean mouth and an honest hand will take a man through any land. - German Proverb

Pleasing ware is half sold. - George Herbert

When the iron is hot, strike. - John Heywood

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. - W. S. GIlbert

Everyone gets their just deserts. - Unknown

Don't be led around by the nose. - Unknown

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. - Spanish Proverb

Don’t do things that kill you. - Unknown

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot. - John Heywood

New roads: new ruts. - G. K. Chesterton

All’s well that ends well. - John Heywood

What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight. - French Proverb

Every head is a world. - Cuban Proverb

Little by little one walks far. - Peruvian

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy. - Chinese Proverb

Speak little, do much. - Benjamin Franklin

Every man for himself. - John Heywood

Only the foolish visit the land of the cannibals. - Maori Proverb

Play the hand you're dealt. - Jawahareal Nehru

A watched pot never boils. - Unknown

Truth - Quotes

Most people don’t really want the truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe us the truth. - Unknown

Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it. - Laurel K. Hamilton

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safir

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. - Mark Twain

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. - H. L. Mencken

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. - William Osler

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. - Henry Ward Beecher

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one owns the truth, no person, no prophet, and no holy book. Each of those and, indeed, each person has the ability, the right, and the responsibility to seek and find his or her own truth, and, if found, it may be a truth for that moment, in that situation, and for that person only. - Unknown

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. - Francis Bacon

No two things can be so contradictory, so much at variance as truth and falsehood; and yet none are so mixed and united. - Fluke Greville

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments. - Henry Wad Beecher

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. - Elizabeth Bowen

Not everything that's true needs to be said. - Cassandra Clare

Nothing endures except truth. - Luc de Clapiers

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. - Horace Mann

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim

Our feelings often colour the truth. - Edward Counsel

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Envronment - Quotes

The story of humankind and our relationship to the earth may be seen as a continuing adventure or a tragedy shrouded in mystery. The choice is ours. - Al Gore

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. - Al Gore

There are very few objections to the theory as a whole; everyone in the scientific community agrees that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is on the rise, and almost everyone believes that it cannot help having some effect. To declare, as some editorialists have done, that the warming has not yet appeared and therefore the theory is wrong is like arguing that a woman hasn't yet given birth and therefore isn't pregnant. - Bill McKibben

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. - Al Gore

We are in a race against time. Newspaper and magazine articles, television specials, and film documentaries all predict a terrible future: global warming will bring to the world melting ice sheets, flooded coastal regions, powerful hurricanes, droughts, and dislocated populations. In a recent study, the Pentagon described the famine, widespread rioting, and even war we can expect as nations defend their dwindling food, water, and energy supplies. - Brian Dumaine

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge. - John McCain

We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop. - Anthony D. Barnosky

Yes, there is still much about global warming we have to learn and research should continue. But the longer we delay, the more CO2 will build up in the atmosphere. It stays there a long time. If we wait too long before acting, we will pass a point of no return and lock ourselves into centuries of global warming. We could pass one of those dangerous tipping points that could make life very difficult. It's a risk we shouldn't take. - Jim Dipeso

On the other hand, there are those who think that …

Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science. - Martin Keeley

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place. - George W. Bush

Most people have very busy lives and simply are not exposed to the real facts about what is happening. It’s much easier to pretend it’s not happening when you can’t see, on very short time scales, the actual impacts. Coupled with this psychological reality is the fact that society ‘is now’ rather than in the future. The inertia in the Earth System means that behaviour today will have significant impacts tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, rather than being immediate. The most serious impacts of climate change today are not seen by most people in the western world as few venture into the developing world, or the poles, where most of the action is. This, coupled with the fact that it is rarely possible to directly link climate change to a specific event in a specific place, all helps to seed doubt into many minds. The final ingredient in this story is a tiny minority of people and organizations who deliberately provide disinformation and set out to confuse people, for their own ends. The coal and oil industries among others have repeatedly demonstrated their credentials in this area. The result is that normal intelligent people are confused, and rather than take on what seems to be a daunting challenge, will tend to walk away from the question. - Neil Hamilton

On Humour

He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. - Allen Klein

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. - Thomas Carlyle

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. - Frank A. Clark

Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings. - Maya Angelou

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. - Eric Sevareid

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. - George Saintsbury

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes. - Bert Williams

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. - Jacob August Riis

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Life - Quotes

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharlal Nehru

We must value life and treasure each breath we take. We must value each person and how he or she touches our lives every day. - Shadonna Richards

When thinking about life, remember this: No amount of guilt can solve the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future. - Unknown

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - Indian Proverb

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. - Eric Hoffer

You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen. - Kody Keplinger

You can’t open up the story of my life and just go to page 738 and think you know me. - Arin Hanson

You don’t have the power to make life ‘fair,’ but you do have the power to make life joyful. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities. - Carl Gustav Jung

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. - Gautama Buddha

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. - Les Brown

More on Life Here, and the book The Mystery of Life - a collection of quotes on and pertaining to life.