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Thought Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought…
- Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being…
- They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...…
- Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that…
- The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and…
- We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in…
- She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
- ...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to…
- So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to…
- The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said,…
- I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as…
- Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth…
- And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but…
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold