THOUGHT QUOTES IX

quotations about thought


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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


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If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta


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

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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


Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Spectator, April 18, 1981

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To follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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His high-erected thoughts look'd down upon
The smiling valley of his fruitful heart.

DANIEL WEBSTER

A Monumental Column

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Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Thought"


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

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Action helps thought, and thought helps action. By action thought is rendered more masculine, attains to greater breadth, and acquires a certain nobleness and dignity. Thanks to thought, action may become more definite, more precise, more fruitful.

ALFRED AUSTIN

The Bridling of Pegasus

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A thought by thought is piled, till some great truth
Is loosened, and the nations echo round,
Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound

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Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Never know whose thoughts you're chewing.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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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


Large elements in order brought,
And tracts of calm from tempest made,
And world-wide fluctuation sway'd,
In vassal tides that follow'd thought.

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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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

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My thoughts were like mercury--always shifting away before I could grab them or form them into a cohesive shape.

DAN SIMMONS

Endymion

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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

ANAIS NIN

diary, February 1932

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