"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

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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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"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"Knowledge is life."

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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"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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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

"If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"Knowledge is life."

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

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

"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."

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."

"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."