Quotes with free-thought

Quotes 961 till 980 of 1401.

  • Buffalo Bill The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Robert Benchley The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Toni Morrison The function of freedom is to free someone else.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Edith Hamilton The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Albert Camus 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.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William James The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cass Sunstein The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Britt Ekland The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Angela Davis The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Beeban Kidron The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Aaron Machado The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
    Aaron Machado
     
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  • Margot Asquith The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Raymond Holliwell The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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