Thought Quotes
21087 Thought quotes by 8606 unique authors
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I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
— Groucho Marx
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I thought men like that shot themselves.
— George V
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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to…
— Samuel Adams
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
— William Hazlitt
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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
— Mark Twain
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Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
— Albert Einstein
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
— Ben Jonson
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I am in love, and he's the one. Obviously I thought the one before him was the one and the one before that was the…
— Caitlin Moran
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst…
— Barbara Pym
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And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
— Albert Camus
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that…
— Annie Besant
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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
— Dan Barker
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't…
— Hugh Laurie
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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
— Aristotle
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No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.
— Kevin J. Anderson
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So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
— Isaac Asimov
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
— Alexander Pope
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I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
— John Lyly
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