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- We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada
- Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
- Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazzlitt
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
- Leonard I. Sweet
- The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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