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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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
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Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
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Statistical techniques are tools of thought, and not substitutes for thought.
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An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
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Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.
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Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts.
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Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
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What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
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I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.
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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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I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.
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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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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
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Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.
