"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."

Thought, Thoughts, Being, Reflection

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"We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed."

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"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, German Novelist

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

Bryan Robson, English Athlete

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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens. A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards."

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