Thought Quotes

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Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything.… — Jane Frances de Chantal
Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought. — Unknown Author
Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed. — Gustave Moreau
Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. — Unknown Author
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging… — Maurice Wilkes
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. — Clement Mok
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. — Leon Blum
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals… — Jimmy Hoffa
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of… — Robert H. Jackson
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You… — Henry Bromell
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. — Lettie Cowman
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever… — A. Alfred Taubman
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity. — Unknown Author
If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight. — Mary Everest Boole
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact… — Gottlob Frege
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it… — Brand Blanshard
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic… — Harold Urey
In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and… — Alexander Fleming
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime… — Alexander Fleming
When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within… — Bokar Rinpoche

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