Thought Quotes
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Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
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When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.
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You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors...
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
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A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station.
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
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I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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Statistical techniques are tools of thought, and not substitutes for thought.
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I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
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What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
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I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.
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People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.
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At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.
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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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We haven't won the games we wanted to win. I thought maybe if I put baseball aside and focus on football, I can get us a step closer to where we want to be.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
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Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
