"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

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"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Heaven, Words

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Thought, People

"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

Thought, Now

"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Reflection, Philosophy, Mind

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Thought, Error, May, Value

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."

Boris Yeltsin, Russian Statesman

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"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

Joshua Reynolds, English Artist

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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 am still learning."

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"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

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"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."

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"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."

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"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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

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

"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."

"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

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

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"I am still learning."

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."

"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all."

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."

"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."

"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."