#thoughts

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. ↗

— St. Jerome

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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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