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  • The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Truth Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Echoes Quotes
  • . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Look, history is interesting. I read three books on George Washington last year. And my opinion is that if they're still analyzing the first president, the 43rd president ought to be doing what he thinks is right. And eventually, historians will come and realize whether... the decisions I made made sense.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Views Quotes
  • I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes