Thales Quotes

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

If you have a thought of hate, imagine a source that is responsible for creating everything in the Universe that's operating on hate. It wouldn't create things that it hated.

EVERYTHING that happens in the universe starts with an INTENTION

I am going to make sure that transformation happens, and I will do it in ways you cannot even imagine.

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

Thought is the first level of creation. Next comes the word. Everything you say is a thought expressed. It is creative and sends forth creative energy into the universe. Words are the second level of creation. Next comes action.

How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

What is not possible is not to choose.

By thought I embrace the universe.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.