THOUGHT QUOTES X

quotations about thought


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Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

The Field of Philosophy

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The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

DORIS LESSING

The Times, November 23, 2003

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It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


All you really have to contribute is what you think.

BARRY DILLER

Playboy, July 1989

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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A penny for your thought.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues

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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now

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One thought fills immensity.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


My thoughts and I were of another world.

BEN JONSON

Every Man Out of His Humour

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Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


If I supply you a thought you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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The wish is often father to the thought.

JOHN SAUL

Black Lightning

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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Thought is what makes humans human ... It's the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow.

BRUNO MADDOX

Discover Magazine, May 2006

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There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Idiot

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