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Thought Quotes by Wendell Berry
- This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking…
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again…
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
- The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
- Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life…
- I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle…
- Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
More Thought Quotes
- 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