Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
~ Martin H. Fisher
Thought is born of failure.
~ Lancelot Law Whyte
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.
~ Spanish Proverb
What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.
~ Ayn Rand
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
~ Edward De Bono
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
~ Adolf Hitler
They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
~ Anne Hutchinson
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
~ Jim Brown
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
~ John Mcgahern
When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'
~ Pauline Neville-Jones
I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary done about them, so my attitude was like, 'Shoot, why not?' I'm sure there are a lot of people that would like to take our place. I felt like we should all embrace it.
~ Phife Dawg
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
~ Franz Boas
As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
~ Kristian Bush
I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.
~ Maria Bamford
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~ Augustus Hare
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
~ Pierce Brosnan
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
~ Robert Quillen
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational.
~ Robert Gottlieb
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.
~ Harsha Bhogle
Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' So if that's the case, I have to keep everything rated G.
~ Michelle Phan
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
~ Frida Kahlo
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
~ James Cameron
I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.
~ Rivers Cuomo
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
~ Steve Carell
I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.
~ Martha Stewart
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
~ Marian Keyes
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
~ Robert Collier
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
~ Zac Efron
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
~ Colin Firth
I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.
~ Jay Asher
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
~ Doug Larson
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
~ Maira Kalman
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
~ Lin Yutang
So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name the Joker immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.
~ Jerry Robinson
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
~ Stephen Hawking
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
~ George Mcgovern
I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
~ Juan Cole
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
~ Nadine Labaki
