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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama

Why should I give them my mind as well? -Dalai Lama, when asked if he wasn't angry at the Chinese for taking over his country (1935- )

I am a carnivorous fish swimming in two waters, the cold water of art and the hot water of science. -Salvador Dali

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one. -Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989)

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for
jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989)

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -Dandemis

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. -Frank Dane

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. -Mary Beth Danielson

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery. -Dante

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -Dante Alighieri, poet (1265-1321)

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. -Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin ~ 1809-1882, British Naturalist

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. -Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. -Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882) [The Descent of Man]

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist (1809-82)

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. -Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809-1882)

He who allows oppression, shares the crime. -Erasmus Darwin, British physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin [The Botanic Garden] (1731-1802)

Hatred - the anger of the weak. -Alphonse Daudet, writer (1840-1897)

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.- Guy Davenport

Don't you know what fanaticism is? It is overcompensation for doubt. Robertson Davies The Manticore

 It's very much easier to be tragic than it is to be comic. I have known people who embrace the tragic view of life, and it is a cop-out. They simply feel rotten about everything, and that is terribly easy. Robertson Davies, novelist

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. -Robertson Davies, writer (1913-1995)

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return. -Da Vinci

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. -Jefferson Davis, confederate president (1808-1889)

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. -Clarence Day, writer, (1874-1935)

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. -James Dean

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are."-- Max Depree

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. -Rene Descartes, "Le Discours de la Methode," 1637

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.-Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed. - John Dewey

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. -Harvey Diamond

....it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane -- Philip K. Dick

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. -Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind. -Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

If I can stop one Heart from breaking / I shall not live in vain / If I can ease one Life the Aching / Or cool one Pain / Or help one fainting Robin / Unto his Nest again / I shall not live in Vain. -Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

Good music is very close to primitive language. -Denis Diderot, philosopher   (1713-1784)

Testing can show the presence of errors, but not their absence. -Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist (1930-2002)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries. -Everett Dirksen

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)  British Statesman, Prime Minister The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. -Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. -Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -Benjamin Disraeli It is much easier to criticize than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success is constancy of purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister) I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. -Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister (1804-1881) In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. -E.L. Docorow, writer (1931- )

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. -H.W. Dodds

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.  If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if  a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any  man's death diminishes me, because I am involved  in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom  the bell tolls; it tolls for thee John Donne (c. 1571-1631) English divine, metaphysical poet, Devotions Upon Emergent  Occasions (first published 1624).

It is never the shallower for the calmnesse. The Sea is a deepe, there is as much water in the Sea, in a calme, as in a storme. -John Donne, poet (1573-1631)

It (death) comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
-John Donne, poet (1573-1631)
 

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own. -William Orville Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice (1898-1980)

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
-William O. Douglas, judge (1898-1980)

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the ground. -Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor and orator (1817-1895)

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (1859-1930)

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. --Marie Dressler

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. - Peter Drucker

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. -Peter Drucker (1909-)

Along this tree / From root to crown / Ideas flow up / And vetoes down. -A senior executive, quoted by Peter Drucker

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: /
Who would search for pearls must dive below. -John Dryden

There is a pleasure sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know. -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700)

Beware the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631-1700)

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself. -William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, educator and writer (1868-1963)

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. - Dumas

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham

How come you are so fond of all those probability people? Because they are never negative. -Andrejs Dunkels

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. -Ariel Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.- Lawrence Durrell

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. -Lawrence Durrell, novelist and poet (1912-1990)

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? -Ed Dussault

The firmest faith is found in fewest words. -Edward Dyer, courtier and poet (c. 1540-1607)

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.-Wayne Dyer {American Psychotherapist, Author & Lecturer}

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. -Wayne Dyer

The difference between being a neurotic and a no-limit person isn't whether someone has problems. Everyone has problems. It's attitude. Do you look for solutions or for more problems? --Dr. Wayne Dyer

My neighbor one night asked me, "How did you become a great motivator? I told him, "If I am such a great motivator, why am I out here walking the dog, instead of the kids?-Wayne Dyer