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Thought Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
- All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are…
- Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
- For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the…
- Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.
- It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is.…
- All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the…
- I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they…
- Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to…
- Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you…
- The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought,…
- No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood…
- Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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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