Accounts Quote by Eugenie de Guerin

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

— William Kingdon Clifford

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

— Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and…

— Bertrand Russell

My mind is always focused on the country.

— Tan Cheng Bock

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of…

— Alex Wagner

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

— Andre Malraux

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger…

— Marcel Proust

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine…

— George Washington

The mind's only perfect vassal.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

A nation must think before it acts.

— Robert Strausz-Hupe

It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a…

— Andrzej Stasiuk