A witty saying proves nothing. ...
by Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

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

The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire

Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
- Voltaire

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney

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

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)

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

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

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
- 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

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton

The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda

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