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Thought Quotes

"My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties."

"My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties."

Mathias Rust, German Celebrity

Thought, People, Cause, Land

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"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Thought, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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"One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed."

"One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed."

Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist

Thought, Doctors, Feeling, Journey

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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Thought, Laughter, Pain, Songs

15

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Thought, Slavery

15

"He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man."

"He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man."

James Beattie, British Poet

15

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

Thought, Nothing, Speech

15

"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."

"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."

Christopher Atkins, American Actor

15

"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."

"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."

Arthur Machen, Welsh Author

Thought, Succeed

15

"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."

"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere."

Philip Guston, American Artist

Thought, Thoughts, Desire, Memory, Nothing

15

"Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end."

"Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

15

"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."

"I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars."

David M. Brown, American Astronaut

Thought, People, Growingup, Job

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"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."

"Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves."

Ted Danson, American Actor

Thought, People

15

"We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms."

"We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms."

Samuel P. Huntington, American Sociologist

15

"He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split."

"He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split."

Mimi Rogers, American Actress

Thought, Purity, Thinking

14

"When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions."

"When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions."

Mort Walker, American Artist

Thought, Problems, Stars

14

"I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought."

"I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought."

Clyde Tombaugh, American Scientist

Thought, Day, First, Visit

14

"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought."

"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

Thought, People, Fighting, Gold

14

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

14

"Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet."

"Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet."

Tim Vine, British Comedian

14

"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."

"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Thought, Being, Class

14

"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."

"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."

Alain Resnais, French Director

14

"It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others."

"It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

14

"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

"No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive."

Richard Carlson, American Author

Thought, Heart, Being

14

"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."

"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."

Lukas Foss, German Composer

Thought, Day, Imitation, May

14

"I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me."

"I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me."

Lucy Liu, American Actress

Thought, Cartoons

14

"I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get."

"I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get."

Mike Judge, American Producer

14

"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."

"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."

Christopher Gadsden, American Soldier

Thought, Feelings, May, Will

14

"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."

"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."

Antoine Rivarol, French Journalist

Thought, Speech

14

"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

Rex Stout, American Writer

Thought, Character

14

"You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it."

"You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it."

Kelly Lynch, American Actress

14

"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."

"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."

Gloria Stuart, American Actress

Thought, Name, Theater

14

"I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed."

"I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

14

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

John Berger, English Artist

Thought, Being, Compassion, Necessity

14

"If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."

"If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."

Rush Limbaugh, American Entertainer

Thought, Taxation

14

"I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable."

"I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable."

John Glover, American Actor

Thought, People, Being

14

"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

William Godwin, English Writer

Thought, Thoughts, Future, Past, Present

14

"I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)."

"I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)."

Rutherford B. Hayes, American President

Thought, Conservative, Radical

14

"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."

"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."

David Seabury, American Psychologist

Thought, Thoughts

14

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."

"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."

Hermann Broch, German Writer

14

"I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently."

"I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently."

Mark Kelly, American Musician

Thought, People

14

"I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost."

"I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost."

Donna Mills, American Actress

Thought, Femininity

14

"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

Horace Walpole, English Author

Thought, Thoughts, First

14

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Burt Bacharach, American Composer

Thought, First, Word

14

"I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them."

"I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them."

Lenny Wilkens, American Basketball Coach

Thought, Chance

14

"Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man."

"Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man."

John Harvey Kellogg, American Businessman

Thought, Help, Man

14

"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."

"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."

Jack Vance, American Author

Thought, Airplanes, Automobiles

14

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."

Galen Rowell, American Photographer

Thought, First, Light

14

"Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days."

"Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days."

Eric Brown, British Writer

14

"Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence."

"Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

Thought, Cartoons, Influence

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