The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts.... I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.
I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
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