Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 208

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Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.
 Lloyd deMause
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
 William Cowper
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
 Dick Cavett
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
 Arnold Bennett
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
 Apuleius
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
 John Hodgman
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Watch your thoughts. Every thought accepted as true is sent by your brain to your solar plexus - your abdominal brain - and is brought into your world as a reality.
 Joseph Murphy
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
 Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
 William Edward Hickson
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
 Isobelle Carmody
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
 Lucy Larcom
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
 Rudy Giuliani
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.