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Thought Quotes by Mark Twain
- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish…
- An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
- Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
- I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took…
- He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
- Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else…
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
- Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
- It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
- A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because…
- It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in…
- We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never…
- It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson