THOUGHT QUOTES III

quotations about thought

Thought quote

Old thoughts never die.

DR. MACKAY

attributed, Day's Collacon


Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts

Tags: Edward Young


I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

Tags: George Eliot


I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstein


Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

"Notes on Hamlet"

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Thoughts are blossoms of the mind.

JOHANN AUGUST HERMES

attributed, Day's Collacon


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.

GEORGES BERNANOS

Last Essays

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Thoughts are things.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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Force a hand ... and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

DAN BROWN

Digital Fortress

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"Kavanagh", Prose Works

Tags: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

LEON BLUM

attributed, Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

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And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak,
Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Cooper

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

lecture, November 18, 1862

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Thought is twin sister of existence; they were born together, and will die together.

PARMENIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Heroes and Hero Worship

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The kings of modern thought are dumb.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse

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It is ... no doubt, true that thought will not at once produce wisdom. It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The Small House at Allington

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My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part I

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You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

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The old excitement of thought has half died out, or rather it is diffused in quiet pleasure over a life instead of being concentrated in intense and eager spasms.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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