quotations about thought
Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
The Miracle of Right Thought
My thoughts were like mercury--always shifting away before I could grab them or form them into a cohesive shape.
DAN SIMMONS
Endymion
Never know whose thoughts you're chewing.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Spectator, April 18, 1981
The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
WALTER LIPPMANN
The Stakes of Diplomacy
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
ANAIS NIN
diary, February 1932
Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought -- a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.
MARK TWAIN
The Mysterious Stranger
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
PAUL ADRIAN MAURICE DIRAC
attributed, Cosmology of Lemaître
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
ECKHART TOLLE
The Power of Now
All you really have to contribute is what you think.
BARRY DILLER
Playboy, July 1989
Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.
C. B. LANGSTON
"Thought"
One thought fills immensity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Proverbs of Hell
The wish is often father to the thought.
JOHN SAUL
Black Lightning
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.
JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON
The Field of Philosophy
There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
DORIS LESSING
The Times, November 23, 2003