"Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older."

Thought, Nothing, Old

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"Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older."

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

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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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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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."

Leon Blum, French Politician

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"Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof."

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch Scientist

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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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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."

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"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."

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"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

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"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."

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"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."

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"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."

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"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."

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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."

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"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."

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"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."

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