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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Related topics: Wisdom
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now.
When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies.
We are seeing what is before us.
- John Bradshaw
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
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