Quotes with free-thought

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  • Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Boris Yeltsin 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 politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Bill Hader It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Aristotle It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Barbara Amiel It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Ben Okri It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Alan Cohen It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Boris Sidis It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
    Source: The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Alice Miller It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Hans Christian Andersen It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Campbell Brown It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Aldous Huxley It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Sands It lights the dark of this prison cell,
    It thunders forth its might,
    It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
    That thought that says 'I'm right!
    Source: The Rhythm of Time
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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