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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
~Rene Descartes
from 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Sir Francis Bacon
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
~Stephen Jay Gould
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If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
~Buddha
from the Dhammapada
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
~Grenville Kleiser
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
~Bill Vaughan
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The best way out is always through.
~Robert Frost
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We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action.
~David J. Schwartz
from The Magic of Thinking Big
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Getting caught is the mother of invention.
~Robert Byrne
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You have to begin
to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue
the tales of how it has been or of how it is.
~Esther and Jerry Hicks
from Money, and the Law of Attraction
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You must wish to consume yourself in your own flame: how could you wish to become new unless you had first become ashes?
~Friedrich Nietzsche
from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
~Segal's Law
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
~Carl Becker
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
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~Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown
from Peanuts
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~Albert Einstein
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will
be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything
else in marriage is transitory.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was not a bow-wow language as some will tell you.
~Joseph Fielding Smith
from The Signs of the Times pg. 40
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It will not be a literal fire any more than it was a literal water that covered the earth in the flood.
~Joseph Fielding Smith
from The Signs of the Times pg. 41
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
~Thomas Edison
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I am a deeply superficial person.
~Andy Warhol
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
~G. K. Chesterton
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Here, then, is eternal life—to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings, and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power.
~Joseph Smith
from The King Follett Sermon
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When you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel—you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them. It is not all to be comprehended in this world; it will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave.
~Joseph Smith
from The King Follett Sermon
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Forty sparrows do not make an eagle, forty house cats do not make a lion, and forty survey courses do not make a scholar. Moreover, if you bring together forty men, each of whom knows a little Latin or math, the result is not the equivalent of consulting just one person with a good knowledge of those subjects.
~Hugh Nibley
from Nobody to Blame
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The first and fundamental principle of our holy religion is, that we believe that we have a right to embrace all, and every item of truth, without limitation or without being circumscribed or prohibited by the creeds or superstitious notions of men, or by the dominations of one another, when that truth is clearly demonstrated to our minds.
~Joseph Smith
from Letter from Joseph Smith to Isaac Galland, March 22, 1839; The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, Dean C. Jesse, editor; Deseret Book, p. 421-22.