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“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”

Thinking Humans Littles Matter Whole Found Human Beings Atheism Morality Ethics Experience Doctrine Ethical Trash Psychoanalysis Agnosticism

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”

Thinking Way Littles Whole Seems Past Water Consciousness Experience Depth Lakes Transparent Past Experiences

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.”

“I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.”

Thinking Humans Understanding Human Nature Experience Stores Inventory

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.”

Thinking Littles Matter Too Much Experience Appetite Simpletons Colic

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till it be consumed: And thisevent, I think I can foretell with the same assurance, as that, if he throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment suspended in the air.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men I Can Moments Hands Fire Air Honest Window Experience Certainty Assurance Consumed Honest Man Suspended Obstruction

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.”

Thinking Men Looks Enough Young Spirit Half Wise Dangerous Experience Young Man Look Up Mistaken Sober Coldness

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”

Thinking World America Perfection Experience Mexico Outside World New Mexico

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.”

Thinking Individual Imagination Experience Constitution Thoughtful Concrete Our Thoughts Involving Intentionality

Author:Zeno Vendler

“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.”

Source: The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame

“Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?”

Thinking Believe Spiritual Experience Marijuana Mushrooms Spiritual Experience

Author:Bill Maher

“You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram.”

People Ifs Thinking Real Shows Reality Actors Situation Experience Productions Drawing Behave Observing Guessing Reality Shows Second Guessing Holograms

Author:Dana Gould

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.”

Thinking Past Values Teach Experience Combination Liberalism Progressive Conservatism

Author:Oliver Stone

“I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.”

People Thinking Want Persons Has Beens Nice Position Appreciate Experience Blessed Think Of Me Every Second Great Experiences Nice Person

Author:Carrie Underwood

“And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.”

People Thinking Way God Moving Spirituality Opportunity Challenges Levels Consciousness Seeing Higher Experience Way Of Thinking Higher Level

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?”

Thinking Years Real Choices Courses Experience Fades Flavor Afraid Of Failure Close To Death

Author:Debra Winger

“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.”

Ifs Thinking Body Would Be Religious Stage All Things Experience Artistic Usa Patriotic Progressive Retirement Disgusting Shameful Nudity Religious Experience

Author:Shelley Winters

“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

People Thinking Years Body Voice Common Behinds Opinion Birth Mass Experience Outcomes Solitary Masterpiece

Book:A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

Source: A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

Thinking Important Highest Experience Lowest Lowest Point

Author:Jim Morrison

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”

Thinking Has Beens Wisdom Time Learning Wise Words Of Wisdom Roots Experience Honestly Our Thoughts Deep Thought Personal Experiences Thoughts And Thinking

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.”

People Thinking Believe Art Sometimes Moments I Believe Voice Nature Magic Experience Everyday Works Of Art Whispering Inexplicable Synchronicity Connectedness Eerie Appropriateness

Author:Charles de Lint

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Source: Warhol Memoir

“To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.”

Thinking Life Years Mean Feelings Decision Quality Balance Essentials Resources Experience Ultimate Determine Quality Of Life Scarce Scarce Resources

Book:Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Source: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

“Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.”

Thinking Experience

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.”

Thinking Memories Experience Relation Systematic Best Memories

Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.”

Thinking Ideas Results Creation Truth Is Experience Contact Brainstorming Lateral Thinking

Author:Konosuke Matsushita

“I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.”

“Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Life Motivational Causes Effects Experience Empowering

Book:A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.”

Thinking Purpose Forget Experience

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.”

Thinking Inspiration Able Waiting Learning Experience Patient I've Learned Right Time Be Patient Billionaire

Author:Bernard Arnault

“There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.”

Thinking Want Soul Purpose Glory Experience Function Your Soul

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about-to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life”

People Thinking Love Should Sometimes Hard Moments Pain Beautiful Life Is Easy Share Sorrow Music Is Experience Wake Up Pain And Sorrow Beautiful Moments

Author:Charlie Haden

“Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Teach Needed Lessons Experience Painful Painful Things

Author:Amy Poehler

“The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Facts Able Language Experience Access Human Experience

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I did not think; I experimented.”

Thinking Experience

Author:Wilhelm Rontgen

“I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.”

Thinking Feels Has Beens Done Life Is Experience Feel Good Joyous Liberated I Feel Good

Author:Fay Wray

“I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones”

Thinking Enough Body Tradition Experience Sells Actresses

Author:Kathleen Turner

“However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.”

Thinking Levels Experience Grateful Be Grateful

Author:Peter Straub

“Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.”

Thinking Want Problem Decision Responsibility Experience What You Want Problem Solving Frozen Stance Making Decisions Personal Power

Author:David Emerald Womeldorff

“The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. That's why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.”

“I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.”

“For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.”

Thinking Love Life Life Is Fear Perfect Materials Higher Experience Eternity Fades Continuing Holding On Mystic Fade Away Material Things Perfect Love Fading Away

Book:Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life

Source: Soul & Spirit: Fully Understand Yourself and Your Life

“I think we are a product of all our experiences.”

Thinking Economy Products Experience

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.”

Ifs Thinking Understanding Loss Talking Knowledge Comfortable Losing Experience

Author:Anderson Cooper

“You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses.”

Ifs Thinking Life Use Motivational Action Three Change Produce Wise Words Behavior Experience Response Determine Determined Controlled Three Things Determination Motivational

Author:Jack Canfield

“We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.”

Thinking World Want Feels Art Ideas Consciousness Alive Photography Conscious Experience Photographer Awake Deep Thought Sustaining

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.”

Thinking Humans Mean Moments Shows Born Lines Comedy Television Jokes Experience Awkward Pauses Human Experience Setups Funny Moments

Author:Rainn Wilson