Alphabetized by author’s last name .

1. Dr. White's Favorite Quotes Live it. Learn it. Love it. Alphabetized by author’s last name.

2. Ellie Okay, this isn’t a quote, but isn’t Ellie cute?

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4. “Thinking is important, but only if it changes the way you feel.” --Jenny Adkins

5. "Knowledge is power.  Information is liberating.  Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."--Kofi Annan, former U.N. Secretary-General

6. “Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry at the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy.” --Aristotle

7. "Nature does nothing uselessly." --Aristotle

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9.     “Over the course of several hundred years, new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations… Then comes along an historian who asks, ‘Well, who built the cathedral?’ Peter added some stones here, and Paul added a few more. If you are not careful, you can con yourself into believing that you did the most important part. But the reality is that each contribution has to follow on to previous work. Everything is tied to everything else.”   --Paul Baran, Founding Father of the Internet

10. “I would prefer not to.”“Bartleby the Scrivener”

11. The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge." --Ambrose Bierce

12. I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow. -William Blake

13. “I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.”    --Napoleon Bonaparte

14. "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

15. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” --Buddha

16. “Life is trying things out to see if they will work.”--Ray Bradbury

17. “A conversation should not be a market in which one sells and another buys. Rather, it should be a bargaining back and forth, and each person should be merchant and buyer. My rubber plant for your victrola, each offering what he has and seeking his deficiency.”--Charles Brooks

18. "Imagine we are all the same.  Imagine we agree about politics, religion, and morality.  Imagine we like the same types of music, art, food, and coffee.  Imagine we all look alike.  Sound boring?  Differences need not divide us.  Embrace diversity.  Dignity is everyone's human right."--Bill Brummel (documentary film-maker)

19. “Go forth, under the open sky and list to Nature’s teachings,While from all around, Earth and her waters, and the depths of air...Comes a still voice.”--William Cullen Bryant from “Thanatopsis”

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21. "A teacher is one who makes herself progressively unnecessary." --Thomas Carruthers

22. “Let your soul be a shining beacon that guides others from darkness.” --John Calef

23. “We think too much, and feel to little.”--Charlie Chaplin

24. “Only the unloved hate.”--Charlie Chaplin

25. "You cannot criticize or blame someone without revealing something about yourself."                    --Deepak Chopra

26. “The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.” --Cicero

27. “I do not believe that differences need to lead to conflict.” --Jane Claypool

28. “I choose to experience joy in the abundance of life, including the wealth of ways that others live and express themselves.” --Jane Claypool

29. “This great nation was founded on principles of equality and religious freedom. Its strength comes from diversity.” --Jane Claypool

30. “True knowledge is knowing the extent of one’s ignorance.” --Confucius

31. “Heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred. Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” --William Congreve

32. “To hold science up as the One and Only Truth is a kind of fundamentalism in itself.” --Johannah Cornblatt

33. “Emotional maturity is the ability to express one’s own feelings and convictions, balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.” --Stephen Covey

34. “One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present. When you defend those who are absent, you retain the trust of those present.” --Stephen Covey

35. “The Abundance Mentality flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of decision-making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.” --Stephen Covey

36. “As you live your values, you will find exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people’s opinions or by comparisons to others. Ironically, you will find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you. In addition, you will find it easier and more desirable to change because there is something—some core deep within—that is essentially changeless.” --Stephen Covey

37. “In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” --Stephen Covey

38. “Happiness is a pro-active choice.” --Stephen Covey

39. “Each of us has many, many maps in our head which can be divided into two main categories: maps of the way things are—or realities, and maps of the way things should be--or values. We interpret everything we experience through these mental maps.”--Stephen Covey

40. “People can’t change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about, and what you value.” --Stephen Covey

41. “’Seek first to understand’ involves a very deep shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They are either speaking or preparing to speak. They are filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives. If they have a problem with someone, their attitude is ‘That person just doesn’t understand.’” --Stephen Covey

42. “The outer world is but a mirror for our inner selves.” --Ashley Cox

43. “What we know is in constant conflict with what we do not know.” --Alex Cunningham

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45. “It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”--Charles Darwin

46. “When the voice and the vision on the inside become louder and clearer than the opinions on the outside, you’ve mastered your life.” --John DeMartini

47. “Everyone is thoroughly good. The only difference in men is the choice they make to exhibit it or not.” --Robyn Ditmore

48. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” --Frederick Douglass

49. “”Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” --Wayne Dyer

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