"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."

Thought, Reason, Will

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"I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is."

Eddie Van Halen, Dutch Musician

Thought, Direction, Trying

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

Thought, Writing

"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

Thought, Belief, Humanity, Martyrs

"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

Thought, People, Comedy, Play

"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Thought, Emotion, Opinion

"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."

Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian Athlete

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"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

Thought, Action, Thoughts, Results

"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Thought, Thoughts, Evil

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."

George Stevens, American Director

Thought, Scandal

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"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

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"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."

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"I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is."

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

"My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own."

"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."

"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."

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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"This world's a bubble."

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man."