Insightful Quotes - Page 19

• I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Spiritual, Infinite Intelligence, Law

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• What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Time, Maturity, Unjust

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• Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Money, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016

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• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  Rachel Roy

  People, Way, Hard Worker

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• When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it." "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone." (Ethan and Josh)

  Susan Mallery

  Girl, Ideas, Josh

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• It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, Mean, World

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• It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Investing

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• I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

  David Sedaris

  Patterns, Changed, Decided

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• I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

  Ishmael Beah

  Revenge, Army, Want

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.199, Macmillan

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• Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Self Esteem

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  "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

  Sherman Alexie

  Black And White, Thinking, Two

  "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007.

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

  John Adams

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

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• Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Light, Long, Darkness

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Heart, Magic

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• I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Atheist, Humor

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• I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dirty, Fighting, Naughty

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• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.35

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• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Time, Truth, Integrity

  Zwischen Wasser und Urwald (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

  George Santayana

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "On My Friendly Critics" (1922)

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Thinking, Balls

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• Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Logic, Inspired

  "Fictional character: Captain Spock". "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

  Germaine Greer

  Brain, Humans, Washing

  The Times 1 Feb. 1986

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