A Quotes
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“A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership”
“A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.”
“A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course”
Source: The Game of Chess
“A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“A thoroughbred woman doesn't have time to hobbyhorse-around, but all the rest of her days for that no-training-required; tomfoolery-aside; refined mate.
Come ready.”
“A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.”
“A thought
A fragrance
A memory
All in a split second
That is all it takes to make my heart beat like the angry ocean
That is all it takes for all my feelings for you to overwhelm me.”
“A thought, before the creation of its entity's mind, characterizes and exemplifies, as a light, before the lamp and a base of it. Indeed, contradicts its nature, comparing that, I Think; Therefore, I Am, to I Am; Therefore, I Think, elucidates mathematically incorrect within its reality of dimension.”
“A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God.”
“A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!”
“A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“A Thought:
Can we stop showing Black and White pictures of the entire decade of the 1960s so people stop thinking it was 1000 years ago. I'm two years younger than the Civil Rights movement. And Ruby Bridges lives down the street from me and is on Instagram.
(8/1/2020 on Twitter)”
“A thought come in my mind, have the people of Gujarat elected me to adorn my home? NO...if I want to adorn something. It will not be my home. It will be my Gujarat.”
“A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.”
Source: The Stone Diaries
“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
“A thought crossed his mind. He wondered if even birds went to school, wrote board exams, and dealt with the burden of living upto their Dad’s expectation of scoring a high percentage. The birds looked so carefree, flapping their wings and gliding away. It made him wish he were a bird…”
Source: <>
“A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.”
Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)
“A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.”
Source: Essays and Reviews
“A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“A thought expressed is a falsehood." In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism makes the very style, the very artistic substance of poetry inspired, transparent, illuminated throughout like the delicate walls of an alabaster amphora in which a flame is ignited.
Characters can also serve as symbols. Sancho Panza and Faust, Don Quixote and Hamlet, Don Juan and Falstaff, according to the words of Goethe, are "schwankende Gestalten."
Apparitions which haunt mankind, sometimes repeatedly from age to age, accompany mankind from generation to generation. It is impossible to communicate in any words whatsoever the idea of such symbolic characters, for words only define and restrict thought, but symbols express the unrestricted aspect of truth.
Moreover we cannot be satisfied with a vulgar, photographic exactness of experimental photoqraphv. We demand and have premonition of, according to the allusions of Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev, Ibsen, new and as yet undisclosed worlds of impressionability. This thirst for the unexperienced, in pursuit of elusive nuances, of the dark and unconscious in our sensibility, is the characteristic feature of the coming ideal poetry. Earlier Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe said that the beautiful must somewhat amaze, must seem unexpected and extraordinary. French critics more or less successfully named this feature - impressionism.
Such are the three major elements of the new art: a mystical content, symbols, and the expansion of artistic impressionability.
No positivistic conclusions, no utilitarian computation, but only a creative faith in something infinite and immortal can ignite the soul of man, create heroes, martyrs and prophets... People have need of faith, they need inspiration, they crave a holy madness in their heroes and martyrs.
("On The Reasons For The Decline And On The New Tendencies In Contemporary Literature")”
Source: Silver Age of Russian Culture
“A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“A Thought For Thinking Parents...
Whatever you Teach your Children
Will be Mirrored Reflection of you
In everything they Are
And in everything they Do
However which-way you treat your Children
Will follow you to the Grave
So Teach them to be Just and Noble
Teach them to be Strong and Brave”
Source: A Book of Fairy Tales and Serendipity
“A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'”
“A thought free of the thinker is illuminated in the light of awareness.
you are that awareness, that knows that there is no path.there is no journey, it is at the destination.”
“A thought has no specific language; however, it can fly and land, upon whichever mind and language.”
“A thought in itself is in fact a sinusoidal wave, and, from this, everything else – the entire nature of existence – follows. Equating a thought to a sinusoidal wave that can be used in Fourier mathematics is the greatest intellectual breakthrough of all time. When its consequences are eventually understood by scientists, philosophers and mathematicians, it will revolutionize the human race like nothing before.”
Source: Psychophysics
“A thought is a Cosmic Order waiting to happen.”
“A thought is a hard thing to control.”
“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.”
“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.”
“a thought is an action,
with the silence
arriving prior
to non-action”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.”
“A thought is an empire - a thought about love is a universe.”
“A thought is an idea in transit.”
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World
“A thought is louder than a train, but silent as a cracking bone.”
Source: Ten Loud Rocks
“A thought is not matter, yet it shapes matter. It is the architect, not the brick.
I am like an ancient book; only the wise dare to open my pages, and only the brave understands the truth I guard.
The world responds to the quality of your awareness.”
“A thought is of a much higher value than an action.”
“A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.”
“A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.”
“A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“A thought must tell at once, or not at all.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.”
“A thought, no matter how small and forgotten, always has an eternal impact on the Cosmos. Most times, we can only see the material and just about beyond the immediate, but if we could trace this thought through all Creation... well, it would be a whole universe in itself.”
“A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love.”
“A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition