THOUGHT QUOTES IX

quotations about thought

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


Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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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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And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

HENRY VAUGHN

They are all gone into the World of Light


You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Culture and Value

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A new thought belongs to the world, and is no man's patent.

HERBERT TUTTLE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

letter to Lucy Donnely, November 25, 1902

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Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

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Thought and action are the jailers of Fate -- they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom -- they liberate being noble.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Thought is power -- real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill -- hence our responsibility to chose.

ANNIE BESANT

The Power of Thought

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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


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


Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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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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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

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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought,
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

ROALD DAHL

The Twits

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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

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