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"The word belief is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it --I don't need to believe it."

Jung, Carl on belief    Share


"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for -- because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."

Marshall, Peter on belief    Share

"We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything."

Edison, Thomas A. on knowledge
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"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius on anger
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]"

Bible on anger
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"The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]"

Bible on anger
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"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]"

Bible on anger
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"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Franklin, Benjamin on anger
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"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

Fuller, Thomas on anger
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

Gandhi, Indira on anger
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

Harris, Sidney J. on anger
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"The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong."

Mizner, Wilson on anger
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"Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Seneca on anger    Share

"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on anger
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"I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!"

Sweeting, George on anger    Share

"No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

Jefferson, Thomas on justice    Share

"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state."

Jefferson, Thomas on farming and farmers    Share

"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."

Proverb, Persian on memory
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"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

Johnson, Samuel on memory    Share

"People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories."

Shaw, P.K. on imagination    Share

"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

Tupper, Martin on memory
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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal."

Buddha on hatred
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"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on hatred
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"Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them."

Jackson Browne on failure    Share

"Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance    Share

"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

Gorbachev, Mikhail on jesus christ    Share

"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow."

Dane, Frank on ignorance    Share

"They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck."

Harris, Joel Chandler on luck    Share

"Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control."

Josefowitz, Natasha on luck    Share

"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Osler, Sir William on ignorance
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"Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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