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385 quotesPoliteness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Courtesy
Abel Stevens
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wallace Stevens
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Politicians and Politics
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
Eternity
Tom Stoppard
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Belief
Jonathan Swift
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At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
Work
Publilius Syrus
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Discovery
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Merit
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Speech
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
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I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Thoughts and Thinking
Sara Teasdale
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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.
Goals
Paul G. Thomas
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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Progress
Henry David Thoreau
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No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
Zen
Tilopa
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It feels like a barbell. [When asked what she thought of her newly acquired Oscar statuette]
Hollywood
Marisa Tomei
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Thoughts are forces.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Trine
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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Truth
Harry S Truman
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People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.
Uncategorised
Harry S Truman
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Originality
Barbara Tuchman
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
Futility
Mark Twain
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun