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Thought Quotes
"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation."
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
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"When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then."
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"A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment."
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"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."
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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."
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"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
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"We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!"
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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."
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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."
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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."
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"Your thought should be creative and not destructive, it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future."
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"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
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"I mostly liked the thought which was said in the film Person of Interest "If you think that chess is the life, you must lose", incrediable thought. With this though you can reach a position when you can say all people are different or probably further. But the question is how much further can you reach?"
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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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"Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void."
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"The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'."
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"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."
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"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things-but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."
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"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion."
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