By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusI can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.
Billy GrahamUnless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen KellerThe ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
Noam ChomskyThrough space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise PascalAll I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMoral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
AristotleImagine the privilege the Lord has given us of sustaining His prophet, whose counsel will be untainted, unvarnished, unmotivated by any personal aspiration, and utterly true!
Russell M. NelsonThe moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
AristotleI always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai LamaWork is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Abraham MaslowIt’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.
Jimmy BuffettLanguage is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonNone of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti’s example.
Fidel CastroAction is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma GandhiThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James MadisonWe have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
Narendra ModiFor any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe BidenVirtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin PowellThe end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas CarlyleDe Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous HuxleyIn the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur SchopenhauerGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheFirst 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 HillAccess to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert OppenheimerIt is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody AllenLike every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous HuxleySteve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
Bill GatesThought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas CarlyleAll thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel KantThe universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel CastroWhatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George OrwellOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore RooseveltThe limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellFear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Elbert HubbardIt is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
DiogenesReligion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. MenckenGreat is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Eckhart TolleI received free health care.
J. K. RowlingI would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
Che GuevaraIt’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
Edmund HillaryChains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren BuffettWalking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas JeffersonA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettI believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas CarlyleYou cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brene BrownNature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham LincolnToo often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. KennedyWe believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘
Warren BuffettLaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas CarlyleA subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov