Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Buddha The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Virginia Woolf The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Albert Einstein The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alexander Smith The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • William Ellery Channing The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • William Somerset Maugham There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Billy Campbell There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Horace Greeley There is no bigotry like that of ''free thought'' run to seed.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Ben Carson There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Mark Twain There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Shapiro There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Billie Jean King There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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