Quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

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Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Credulity - willingness to accept
unsupported statements without demanding proof -
is the greatest ally of the dictator and the demagogue.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie