Quotes of Notion - somelinesforyou

“ Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind - a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ”

- Philip James Bailey

“ I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. ”

- John Cage

“ The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ History warns us... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”

- Thomas Henry Huxley

“ I want more thought and less fear, more manhood and less superstition. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll

“ So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ”

- George Berkeley

“ That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. ”

- George Berkeley

“ It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough — as most wrong theories are! ”

- H. G. Wells

“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”

- John Wilmot

“ Our thoughts at least are ours. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better than we are. ”

- George Eliot

“ Thoughts shut up want air,And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. ”

- Edward Young

“ Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. ”

- John Keats

“ Never know whose thoughts you're chewing. ”

- James Joyce

“ An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ What you are thinking about, you are becoming. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. ”

- Aristophanes

“ The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ”

- Robert MacNeil

“ Thoughts are things. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. ”

- Eckhart Tolle

“ My thoughts and I were of another world. ”

- Ben Jonson
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