Quotes with thinking--not

Quotes 4281 till 4300 of 10591.

  • Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • John Bradshaw It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Cyril Connolly It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Arnold Toynbee It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Mark Twain It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Baldwin It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
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  • Barnett Newman It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • W. H. Auden It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Amartya Sen It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Charles De Montesquieu It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Harry S. Truman It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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