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1912–2008 United States
Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British stock investor, businessman, philanthropist and founder of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities.
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The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."
The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio (2002)
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now.
Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.
Do you want to make your prayers more effective? Not that they are not effective, but do you want to help them become more effective?
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities. So we are encouraging people to start using the same methods of science that have been so productive in other areas, in order to discover spiritual realities.
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
Work at being a humble person.
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