He who knows nothing doubts nothing.
—Italian Proverb

As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
—Ecclesiastes 10:1

There’s never been anybody exactly like you before, and there will never be anybody exactly like you in the future. You’re the only one.
—Fred Rogers SOURCE

Everything in the universe comes out of Nothing. Nothing—the nameless is the beginning.
—Lao Tsu

The root of sin is ignorance, or obscurity.... Look for knowledge from the birth to the death.
—Mohammed

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind, there are few.
—Shunryu Suzuki

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the “Present.”
—Michael Michalko

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
—Gautama Buddha

And I saw that all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbors.
—Ecclesiastes 4:4

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The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge.
—Siddhaswarupananda

Calmness can lay great errors to rest.
—Ecclesiastes 10:4

The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.
—Lao Tsu

You know, you don’t have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
—Fred Rogers

The original programming for human consciousness is to discover itself.
—Lao Tzu

If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
—Yogi Berra

Ideas are the currency of success; they separate you from the competition.
—Edward DeBono

Since everything is but an apparition Perfect in being what it is, Having nothing to do with good or bad, Acceptance or rejection, One may as well burst out in laughter. 
—Longchenpa

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The trouble with corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
—Faith Popcorn

As for man, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.
—Ecclesiastes 3:18

Shut up...stop thinking so much... and just observe. It is guaranteed you will experience something amazing if you can really do just that.
—Brother Carl

The greatest form has no shape.
—Lao Tsu

When you start to realize your insignificance, you start to do significant things.
—Marco Marsan

The sage has no mind of his own. He is aware of the needs of others.—Lao Tsu

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.
—Sioux Indian Prayer

Learning without thought is labor lost.
—Confucius

You will be damned if you do. And you will be damned if you don’t.
—Lorenzo Dow, definition of Calvinism

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
—Confucius

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Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.
—Nisargadatta Maharaj

The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?
—Ecclesiastes 6:11

Take care of the means, and the end will take care of itself.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Truthful words are not beautiful. Beautiful words are not truthful.
—Lao Tsu

Don’t be a dick. Be a Jane.
—Marco Marsan

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
—Dean William R. Inge

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it... or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it.
—Gautama Buddha

Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.
—Lao Tsu

The future ain’t what it used to be.
—Yogi Berra

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand.
—J. KrishnamurtiNothing is better for man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad.

I have lived on the lip ofreason, wanting answers, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.
—Rumi

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