Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- 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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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
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
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 is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- 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
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
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
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
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
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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