"A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced."

Thought, Experience, Mind, Limitation, Knowledge

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"A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced."

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Knowledge is intellectual art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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"They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness."

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"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."

Education

"A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him."

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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."

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"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too."

Society

"A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return to his hot and squalid room and read a novel - or a poem. Wilson liked poetry, but he absorbed it secretly, like a drug. The Golden Treasury accompanied him wherever he went, but it was taken at night in small doses - a finger of Longfellow, Macaulay, Mangan: 'Go on to tell how, with genius wasted, Betrayed in friendship, befooled in love...' His taste was romantic. For public exhibition he has his Wallace. He wanted passionately to be indistinguishable on the surface from other men: he wore his moustache like a club tie - it was his highest common factor, but his eyes betrayed him - brown dog's eyes, a setter's eyes, pointing mournfully towards Bond Street."

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"I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing."

Love

"If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it."

Spiritual

"You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced."

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