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What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar,
but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do feuds ever end?
Only when both sides shake hands,
and agree that there is no winner, no loser,
only people who have wearied of fighting
and desire to live in peace.
For many years, Northern Ireland was locked
in a murderous and seemingly unending feud.
The key to ending the feud was a shared commitment
that peace was more important than vengeance.
That is always the choice to be made.
The organizers of an April 10, 2009
joint Protestant-Catholic commemoration
of the Northern Ireland dead,
comprised of members of the once-outlawed Sinn Fein
as well as their once-avowed enemies,
referred to, "the terrible, random nature
of death in war and civil conflict."
Some lessons have been learned, many more remain.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin -
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
- Lord Byron
The true delight is in the finding out,
rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Nobody needs your help.
I know, I know, this is a difficult one. But it is true.
This does not mean no one wants your help,
or that no one could use your help.
It simply means the thought that another
Aspect of Divinity is powerless without you is inaccurate.
- Neale Donald Walsch
A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
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