Quotes & Sayings 4

Here is the fourth and final selection of quotes and sayings from the collection that I've gathered over the years. I hope that you have found some of them to be interesting and thought provoking.

Understand and judge not.

[Georges Simenon]

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

[Marie Curie]

Independent because nobody depends on me,

Not a slave because not a master.

[Tausk]

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

[Einstein]

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones own courage.

[Anais Nin]

Work to become, not to acquire.

[E. Hubbard]

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

[Mark Twain]

Don’t be afraid of going slowly, be only afraid of standing still.

[Chinese Proverb]

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

(Richard Feynman)

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

[Chinese Proverb]

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?

[Keynes]

The consumer society is in fact the most efficient mechanism ever devised for the creation and distribution of unhappiness.

[Lord Sacks]

An individual can make a difference and should try to do so.

(John F Kennedy)

Each generation has to consider the question “what is required of us?”

Dharma: Doing the right thing and doing it right as a small part in a larger whole. It is not prescribed, it is something we do ourselves. You have to decide what is the right thing to do. The concept of choice is inherent.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[Ghandi]

When the mind is disturbed the multiplicity of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity of things disappears.

(Ashvaghosha)

One is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness

(The Tao of Physics P 142)

The Cosmos is all that is, all that ever was and all that ever will be.

[Sagan]

The Universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language in which it is written.

(Galileo)

The Universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

(Sagan)

And if the soul were to ask, ‘Is it still far?’ you must answer:

‘On the other side of the river, not this one, the one just beyond.’

[Alejandra Pizarnik]

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

(Richard Feynman)

We just don’t know!

(Patrick Moore)