Criminal mind Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criminal mind Language Philosophy of Mind Political Purpose
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal? — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Words do not express thoughts nor do they express that which is real. Instead they distract. Believe in acts rather than words. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
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“Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.” — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image