Saint Basil Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Saint Basil
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
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Many Sayings
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Facts are many, but the truth is one.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm Forbes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog?
Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can
in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truth Sayings
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is the truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- The Buddha
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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