Famous Quotes: Thought

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.
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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.
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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Politics is not really my thing.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.
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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.
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