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  • Denis Waitley To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Al Oerter To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    Source: The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Sir Richard Steele To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Barry McGuire To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sir William Osler To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Confucius To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Einstein To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Bruce Lee To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Jessamyn West To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Aristotle To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcus Aurelius To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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