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Thought Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
- The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a…
- The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.…
- Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a…
- To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher…
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
- Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life…
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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