THOUGHT QUOTES VI

quotations about thought

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

radio broadcast, "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", October 16, 1938

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O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

JOHN KEATS

letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817

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When thoughts cannot find vent and utterance in action, the mind ceases to think. It will not continue to produce its mighty births of power and beauty, to see them fall dead-born into the world, or to be strangled in embryo.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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A great thought is best dressed in the simplest language.

CHARLES NORDHOFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Reflections

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People, in all but the most favored times and places, are rooted to the places where they were born, think the thoughts of those places, can endure no other thoughts. The next parish even is suspected.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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The idea that being in love and having beautiful kids you would die for is going to prevent suicidal thoughts is a lie.

JULIE A. FAST

"Chris Cornell: When Suicide Doesn't Make Sense", Psychology Today, May 19, 2017


A thought embodied and embraced in fit words walks the earth a living being.

E. P. WHIPPLE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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People can live very simple lives, can't they? Tucked away, without thinking. I think the world is what you enter when you think--when you become educated, when you question--because you can be in the big world and be utterly provincial.

V. S. NAIPAUL

The Paris Review, fall 1998

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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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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


Call one thought, and another will follow.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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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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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It's the thought that counts.

SWEDISH PROVERB


Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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Cut off, or cut free, from speech, thought assumes its baroque writerly structures. Speech in a language of which he knows only a few words involves the conscious, patient, awkward, hilarious, and typically unsuccessful translation of thought. This process illuminates the gulf between thought and speech, which is not quite identical to the gulf between inside and outside.

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

"Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console's 'Romanian Notebook'", L.A. Review of Books, May 21, 2017