A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Charles Lamb

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Saint Teresa of Avila

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Jonathan Ames

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Stephen Covey

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

John Milton

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Charles Caleb Colton

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Jay Leno

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

Eric Kandel

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.