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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. – Albert Einstein
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. – Victor Hugo
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. – La Rochefoucauld
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. – Hippocrates
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. – William Shakespeare
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. – Helen Gahagan Douglas
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. – Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. – Moses Ibn Ezra
Every Thing starts in Your Mind as a Thought, Dream or a Fantasy. Use your Imagination! – Gordana Biernat
Every thought about death takes a moment of life away. – Dejan Stojanovic
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. – Napoleon Hill
Frank Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you get married, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were out at the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a waitress taking an order, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think well maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not – Old School
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. – Daniel J. Boorstin
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. – C. S. Lewis
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I have thought too much to stoop to action. – Adam De L'Isle
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. – Harry S Truman
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. – T. S. Eliot
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. – Confucius
If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute I thought WE won' – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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