Thought Quotes - page 4

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. (Isaiah Berlin)
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world. View quote
George Foreman
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. View quote
William Cobbett
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. View quote
Dean Acheson
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. View quote
Robert Browning
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. View quote
Og Mandino
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. View quote
Woody Allen
I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me. (Robert F. Kennedy)
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? View quote
Tom Stoppard
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. View quote
Dr. Seuss
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it. View quote
John Gay
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. View quote
William Whewell
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. View quote
Howard Dean
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
Nature, not content with denying to Mr - the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing. View quote
A. E. Housman
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
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