Quotes with free-thought

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1401.

  • Agatha Christie There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Anne Hutchinson They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Voltaire They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Sidney Madwed Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Oscar Wilde Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Hybels Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Bob Kane This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bob Saget This woman woke up to see me and John Stamos banging on her windows. She must have thought she died and went to sitcom hell.
    Source: Bob Saget: That Aint Right (2007)
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Barnett Newman This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Cyril Connolly Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Buddha Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Hermann Broch Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William Wordsworth Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Shakespeare Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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