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“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics - the model of all neo-positivistic thinking - lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

“Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.”

Thinking Men Lying Virtue Duty Gratitude Thousand Ten Guides Punishment Obligation One Man Virtuous Giver Apprehension

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

“I think the Obama Administration has done a lousy job marketing and selling and explaining this entire thing. And, as a result, all of these right-wing front organizations financed by the Koch brothers, are blanketing the airwaves with lies about Obamacare. And people are scared.”

People Thinking Done Jobs Lying Results Fronts Brother Organization Wings Marketing Scared Selling Administration Explaining Right Wing Obamacare

Author:Robert Reich

“One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented then the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself stand out. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths. Always remember that no matter how many times you get shot down, you will get smarter, better and you only have to be right once to be successful.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”

Thinking Persons Past Lying Wise Regret Source Anticipation Calamity Express Yourself No Regrets I Regret Have No Regrets Past Regrets

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Lying Steps Sea Rivers Response Fishes Boat Lakes Subtle Fishing Concentration Signals Delivery Fisherman Trivia Anglers Technicalities Pirouettes

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Home Lying Sports Advantage Crowds

Author:Frank Lampard

“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”

“We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.”

Thinking Littles Matter Lying Certain Secret Atheism Streets Information Mortals Dictionary Choke Beam Knots Incline Stools Hangman

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Running Lying Cry Green Golf Golfers Crow

Author:J. C. Snead

“Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.”

Ifs Thinking Lying Easy Magic Talent Fool Profession Tricks Magician

Author:David Copperfield

“It's sad to hear that 1 in 3 girls have an eating disorder, because they're trying to be something that they think they need to be, when it's such a lie that they believe. Meanwhile all over the world there's people that are starving or dying of something crazy that we forget, and we think we're the only ones in this world.”

People Thinking World Needs Trying Believe Lying Girl Forget Crazy Dying This World Eating Disorder Believe In Me Starving Eating Disorder

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.”

Thinking Writing Whole Facts Lying Force Glory Lives Of Others

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

“The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.”

Thinking Lying Source Thinking Of Others

Author:Shantideva

“I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.”

Thinking Writing Use Lying Pencils Typewriters Horizontal Lying Down

Author:Truman Capote

“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“Because there are 7 billion 47 million people on the planet And I have the audacity to think I matter I know it's a lie but I prefer it to the alternative”

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Author:George Watsky

“It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Lying Boys Honest Losing Mood Loser Pretending Formulas Should I Formula 1

Author:Sebastian Vettel

“In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.”

Thinking Giving Christian Lying Subjects Deserve Dignity Importance Difficulty Preaching Eloquence Messengers Pulpit

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.”

Thinking Mind Believe Humans Stills I Can Ideas Might Lying Universe Results Accepting Doubt Evolution Blind Accidents Revelations Free Will Human Mind Chemicals Idolatry

Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.”

“This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.”

Thinking Way Want Real Lying Turns Sun Food Huge Waste Tiny Real Life Culinary Metals Pigs Cages Mud Pits Babe Hay Grate

Author:Morley Safer

“We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.”

Thinking Happiness Lying Vision Our Lives Keys Happy

Book:Lovingkindness

Source: Lovingkindness

“Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.”

Thinking Men Mean Doe Able Lying Novel Mystery Integrity Comic Free Will One Man

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.”

Thinking Mind Book Stories Lying Enjoy Sound Sides Sleep Wife Bed Conscious Breathing Sensitive Luther Heartbeat

Book:Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Hands Would Be Pain Remember Lying Pleasure Break Blood This World Bears Patterns Flesh Pleasant Life Death Flesh And Blood Love Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.”

Thinking Mind Persons Lying Longing Intense Absent

Book:No time like the present

Source: No time like the present

“I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.”

Thinking Knows Writing Seems Lying Bed Essentials Sitting Chairs Hanging Out Daydreaming Dope Indolence Bed Time

Book:Conversations with Grace Paley

Source: Conversations with Grace Paley

“Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.”

“We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.”

Thinking Lying Sound Stranger Deception Telephones Amazement

Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It's what you think.”

Thinking Knows Real Lying Keys Lasting Lasting Change

Author:Lisa Oz

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

Thinking Years Wells Looks Ends Matter Done Today Action Lying Certain Week Amount Each Day Accumulation Good Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Lying Morning Fronts Paper Newspapers Flash

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

“We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.”

Thinking Lying Lines Fiction Movement Straight Lines Fiction Writers Mazes Flux

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet place that lies somewhere in my soul. I do not reason, analyze or think. Those will come later. I simply go. From this place of silence, I garner strength and inspiration to stand firm in the face of fire, to be calm in the midst of thunder. When I emerge, the world has not changed, but I have. And in changing, a whole new world is born.”

“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.”

Thinking Lying Situation Comedy Modern Drama Greek Performers Greek Drama

Author:Brendan Coyle

“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.”

Thinking Lying Situation

Author:Brendan Coyle

“People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.”

People Ifs Thinking Done Happens Age Young Lying Certain Havens Youth Amount Insignificant

Author:Jennifer Jason Leigh

“You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.”

Thinking Should Mind Lying Parent Like You Teenager

Author:Shay Mitchell

“Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.”

People Thinking Bigs Might Lying Deals Bigger Holes Graduates Big Deal Golfing Diploma Hole In One

Author:Anderson Cooper

“I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.”

People Thinking Way Done Lying Streets Protect Chasing Rumor Blogging Hacking Street Life Spreading Rumors

Author:Ali MacGraw

“The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.”

Thinking Knows Needs Lasts Lying Mother Guy Know How Advice Honesty Policy Drunk Being The Best Uncles

Author:Adam DeVine

“Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Ends Facts Motivational Lying Goal Term Creative Achieve Ultimate Deeds Treasure Rescue

Author:Francisco Leon

“The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Stories Lying Night Fall Reading My Own Trouble Bed Falling Asleep

Author:Linda Sue Park

“The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.”

Thinking Reason Lying American Politics Jimmy Carter Never Lie

Author:Lester Maddox

“I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it.”

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Author:George Pelecanos

“In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often people will do things which are not actually their nature, but will do things because they think that's what they should do.”

People Thinking Knows Should Persons Important Lying Study Pieces Fashion Paper Complexes Studying Music

Author:Richard Meale