THOUGHT QUOTES VIII

quotations about thought

Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better than we are.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Though old the thought and oft expressed,
'Tis his at last who says it best.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

For an Autograph


Thought is challenged only by thought.

KHALED AL-FAISAL

Arab News, May 15, 2017


Great thoughts come from the heart.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Some Mistakes of Moses


Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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What you are thinking about, you are becoming.

MUHAMMAD ALI

Esquire, February 2012

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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


Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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Trying to write an inspiring memoir while repressing such thoroughly uninspiring thoughts is a path to madness.

RON CHARLES

"'Woman No. 17' a juice box of suburban satire", Denver Post, May 26, 2017


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

HERBERT TUTTLE

attributed, Day's Collacon


For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet, towards men, are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be, without power and place, as the vantage, and commanding ground.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Great Place", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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It is not the man that gives me most of outward things that helps me to live; but the man who gives me thoughts and ideas by which a wider sweep of beauty opens to my vision, and kindles in my holy affections, by which I rise nearer to God.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Thought obeys no natural law. In a stream of water, time works the way it usually does in nature -- the future passes into the present and then into the past. In thought, the past might pour into the present and then drain away into the future. Or the future might rain into the past as the present disappears. Thought is not like a natural thing. Thought is literally the essence of the artificial.

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

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


To think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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