Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.
Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in
errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt)
sapientiores solent esse.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Philippicoe (XII, 2)
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
William Shakespeare
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First thoughts are not always the best.
[It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]
Vittorio Alfieri
Quotes , Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the
unoriginal elements which they contain.
Vittorio Alfieri
Quotes , Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
thought without accepting it.
Vittorio Alfieri
Quotes , Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither
desire thou his dainty meats:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith
he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 6-7)
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Sow a thought and reap an act.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 6-7)
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The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,
Bishop Joseph Butler
Quotes , Source: Sermon on the Character of Balaam--Seventh Sermon
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What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Childe Harold--To Inez (canto I, st. 84, l. 6)
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