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Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. ...
by Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

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Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
- Michel de Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

Nothing Quotes and Sayings

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

Stress is nothing more than a
socially acceptable form of mental illness.
- Richard Carlson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin

Nothing is as good for the soul as a marshmallow roast.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is more cheerful than talking
about our friends' shortcomings.
- Mason Cooley

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
- Albert Schweitzer

There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else

The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot

I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A.A. Milne

It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass

Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The more I read, the more I meditate;
and the more I acquire,
the more certain I am that I know nothing.
- Voltaire

Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed
in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

There is nothing true anywhere,
The true is nowhere to be seen;
If you say you see the true,
This seeing is not the true one.
- Abraham Lincoln paraphrasing Lao Tzu' Tao te Ching

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
- Epictetus

Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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