THOUGHT QUOTES V

quotations about thought


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Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL
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"Sonnet", Clio


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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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I don't believe in thought. Too much thinking.

PHILIP MOELLER

The Roadhouse in Arden

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They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

PHILIP SIDNEY

Arcadia

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Every thought is a seed which inevitably will bear fruit of its own kind.

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


Man being made a reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being, than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only reveal the poverty that necessitates the loan.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

MAHATMA GANDHI

attributed, Ethical Religion (Ganesan)

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Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Cloth of Gold

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The delicate thought that cannot find expression,
For ruder speech too fair,
That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,
And scatters on the air.

BRET HARTE

"The Mountain Heart's Ease"

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Maid in Waiting

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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Thought is merely a property of matter, like the other properties of matter such as mass, motion, color.

ANEELA SHAHZAD

"Mind--The Hard Problem", Daily Pakistan, May 26, 2017


Two heads are better than one.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs

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Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"On Reading---"

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We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

THOMAS BERNHARD

Extinction


Thought is not made in a vacuum, nor created out of likeness. It requires travel and shipping and the coming and going of strangers to impregnate a civilization. That is why thought has flourished in cities which lie along the paths of communication. Nineveh, Athens, Alexandria, Rome, Venice, the Hansa towns, London, Paris -- they have made ideas out of the movement and contact of many people. Men are jostled into thought. Left alone they spin the same thread from the same dream. A community which is self-contained and homogeneous and secluded is intellectually deaf, dumb, and blind. It can cultivate robust virtue and simple dogmatism, but it will not invent or throw out a profusion of ideas.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Jay, August 1, 1786

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