THOUGHT QUOTES VI

quotations about thought


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

GEORGE WASHINGTON
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letter to John Jay, August 1, 1786


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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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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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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


Good thoughts are apt to vanish away if they be not speedily embodied in good actions.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


The course of history has often been turned by sentiment, but by thought never. The thinkers are but valuable ornaments. A safe place is assigned to them on the world's mantelpiece, while humanity basks and blinks stupidly on the hearth.

MAX BEERBOHM

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

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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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Thought exists at the farthest remove from the vocalizations of the human animal.

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

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


A great thought is best dressed in the simplest language.

CHARLES NORDHOFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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Every thought is a prayer and we should use words and thoughts to manifest good.

ANNA JACYSZYN

"The power of grateful thinking", The Daily Courier, May 30, 2017


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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It's the thought that counts.

SWEDISH PROVERB


O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

JOHN KEATS

letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817

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The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening. Then thought frees herself from the chains with which those interested -- rulers, lawyers, clerics -- have carefully enwound her. She shatters the chains. She subjects to severe criticism all that has been taught her, and lays bare the emptiness of the religious political, legal, and social prejudices amid which she has vegetated. She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.

PETER KROPOTKIN

Anarchist Morality

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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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Thoughts ... have tarried in my mind and peopled its inner chambers,
The sober children of reason, or desultory train of fancy.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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