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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Related topics: Wisdom Self Happy Insight Attitude Positive Choice
Foolish Quotes and Sayings
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Consistency Quotes and Sayings
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Persuaded Quotes and Sayings
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No Quotes and Sayings
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
Life is a continuity always and always.
There is no final destination it is going towards.
Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life,
not reaching to some point,
no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage,
moving joyously, without bothering about any destination.
- Osho
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