The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought.

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.