Can Quotes and Proverbs Transform Your Mindset?

[kant]

Do you have a favor quotes? proverb? passage?
Something that changes your thinking, and provoke inner thoughts?

 

[Mk]

I just read one a few minutes ago that I led, by the great Greek philosopher and teacher Plato:

They sure do give diseases strange names.

 

[ranger]

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep
Author: Chinese Proverb

"I have no dreams, just goals and ambitions"
~Shiv(me)

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary
Author: Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver
Author: Kahlil Gibran

Its time for some of us to wake up.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
--David Bly

 

[Igor_S]

Its modified old one: "I think I am thinking, therefore I think I am. ". Makes you THINK doesn't it

 

[kant]

Its modified old one: "I think I am thinking, therefore I think I am. ". Makes you THINK doesn't it

If you that, than you like this:

I think, and think, and think of my own thinking?

i think, and think, and think, and think of my own thinking

i think, and think, and think, and think, and think of my own thinking


i think, and think...... and think, and think of my own thinking.


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i bet that makes your think, ah?

 

[FredGarvin]

I have had this one for quite a while:

"Victory breeds hatred. He who has given up both victory and defeat, he is contented and happy."

Victory breeds enmity; the vanquished one dwells in sorrow; the composed person lives happily, disregarding both victory and defeat.


- Dhammapada

 

[rachmaninoff]

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[Ivan Seeking]

"I have a dream"

Some guy who apparently was sleeping.

 

[devious_]

There's an old Indian (I think) saying that goes:

"There is no such thing as a hole on your side of the canoe."

I've always been fond of it.

 

[Smasherman]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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[jimmy p]

"Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Cree Indian prophecy.

 

[Evo]

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

 

[motai]

"Light is precious in a world so dark." -The Tale of Despereaux.

 

[scott_alexsk]

"Oh yes, I am always cheerful. You know the true philosphy of life is to take things just as they come. How was the clever defination of-let me see, I forget the name-of life? What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. That's my philosphy...Some of my newspaper enemies come out with a rumor that I was insane, mad, and all that, you know. That's the only reason why I did it, I assure you..."
-Mayor A. Oakey Hall, 1871 shortly after the Times releases of the "Proofs of Guilt" to a reporter (He was a member of the Tweed Ring).

 

[tribdog]

What are you? A man or a mouse? ~Donald D.

 

[Just some guy]

"Outside a dog is a man's best freind, inside a dog it's too dark to read" - Groucho Marx.

"I wish Marx would acquire some capital instead of writing about it" - Karl Marx's wife when he was writing his book Capital

"Winston! You're Drunk"
Churchill: "Madam, you're ugly, and tomorrow I shall be sober."

 

[RVBuckeye]

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage

Artist- Rush
Album- Moving pictures
Title- "Limelight"

 

[scott_alexsk]

"Sucess is measured by how far you bounce after you hit bottom."
-I forgot

"Invention is the mother of necessity."
-Thorstein Veblen (I know it is inverted)

"There is nobody more so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
-Don Herold

"I don't meet competition, I crush it."
-Charles Revson

"In our quest for knowledge we find ourselves pushing the limits of imagination.""Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
-George Santayana

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: All men could be cremated equal."
-Vern Partlow( referring to atomic theory)

"History is the stort trudge from Adam to atom."
-Leonard Levinson

"The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it."
-Carl Becker

"I keep reading between the lies."
-Goodman Ace (refering to journalism)

"God gave us memory that we might have roses in December."
-James M. Barrie

"It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious."
-Alfred Whitehead

"I do like to see the arms and legs fly."
-George S. Patton III

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein (I think he gets it )

"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."
-Nikita Khrushchev

Wow, I finally found a use for my quote book.

 

[ranger]

"Marriage is like the military...It's only voluntary until you're in it."
-The Lockhorns.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

If you continue on your present course you will likely end up where you are going.

 

[Astronuc]

Evil is bad, and good . . . isn't. The Tick Cartoon network

I once heard that the smarter you are, the wrinklier your brain is. The Tick

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[kant]

" I die"------------------?

 

[kant]

If you continue on your present course you will likely end up where you are going.

The " present course" could imply three things.
One) It is the "intention" to walk.
two) walking with a gun behind your head.
three) You are walking with a road map, but for whatever reason, you decide not to look at it.


the "where you are going" do not imply a destination/goal. So, perhaps it must be an action, a continue process.


So a person walks in an endless loop no matter what. Very Zen!

 

[Astronuc]

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." --- Abigail Adams

Very appropriate for PF!