Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• Africa has no future.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Future
  • Africa

• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Future
  • Schedule

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Way
  • Action
  • Comedy

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Future
  • Present
  • More

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Create

• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Kids
  • Future

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Driving

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • May
  • Nature

• You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Thinking
  • Absurdity

• I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Basketball

• I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Strong
  • Singing

• When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Member
  • TLC
  • Dallas Austin

• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Future