"So long as I confine my thoughts to……" — George Berkeley
"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."
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36 Quotes by George Berkeley
George Berkeley has 36 quotes on this site.
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common…
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
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Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
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To be is to be perceived
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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one…
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Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and…
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker…
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something…
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act…
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More Confine Quotes
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one of 103 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I…
— Winston Churchill
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Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
— Mary Abigail Dodge
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If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that…
— John Templeton
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If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will…
— Unknown Author
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...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive…
— J. L. Mackie
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If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything…
— Konrad Lorenz
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime…
— Peter Singer
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The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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