THOUGHT QUOTES VIII

quotations about thought


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What you are thinking about, you are becoming.

MUHAMMAD ALI
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Esquire, February 2012


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Tags: Muhammad Ali


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

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

Tags: Henry David Thoreau


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

Tags: Eckhart Tolle


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

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


Ideas are the seeds of thought, but they do not produce flowers unless the soil where they are sown is fertile.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Great thoughts come from the heart.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


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

Tags: Herman Melville


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


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

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

For an Autograph


It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

ARISTOPHANES

The Frogs

Tags: Aristophanes


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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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


And a lot of times, the journey of someone who is struggling with mental health issues or with suicidal thoughts is a long, lonely walk.

TERRESA HUMPHRIES-WADSWORTH

"Walking Across Wyoming", Powell Tribune, May 26, 2017


Alas! we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot; our high resolve look down upon our slumbering acts.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

The Venetian Bracelet: The Lost Pleiad


Ah, the mighty men who conquer,
And the men whose words we drink,
Are the men who quit the jangle,
Quit the turmoil and the wrangle
Of the world, and turn their faces
To secluded, silent places,
Where in solitude they think.

EDGAR GUEST

"Think"

Tags: Edgar Guest


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


Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


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


There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe