It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
- Topic: Awareness, Persuasion, Thinking
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
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Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
