Quotes 781 till 800 of 825.
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Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.
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Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
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Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
Source: Who Is Man? (1965) -
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
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Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
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Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
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You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Source: The White Company (1891) -
You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.
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You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,
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You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59
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