thought Quotes

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of a mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts. Then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

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“All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

topic:thought language

“My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:power desire thought

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thought philosophy

“What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

topic:life friendship thought

“Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:action thought

“Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

topic:women woman thought speech

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