THOUGHT QUOTES III

quotations about thought

Thought quote

Thoughts are blossoms of the mind.

JOHANN AUGUST HERMES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Sartor Resartus

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

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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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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Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Heroes and Hero Worship

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Old thoughts never die.

DR. MACKAY

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

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Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays

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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

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Thoughts are things.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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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.

GEORGES BERNANOS

Last Essays

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

PARMENIDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


The kings of modern thought are dumb.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse

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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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Our thoughts at least are ours.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear

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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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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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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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The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha

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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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