THOUGHT QUOTES III
quotations about thought
Thoughts are blossoms of the mind.
JOHANN AUGUST HERMES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sartor Resartus
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak,
Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Cooper
Old thoughts never die.
DR. MACKAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Heroes and Hero Worship
Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Kavanagh", Prose Works
Thoughts are things.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Last Essays
Thought is twin sister of existence; they were born together, and will die together.
PARMENIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM
attributed, Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Our thoughts at least are ours.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
lecture, November 18, 1862
Force a hand ... and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.
DAN BROWN
Digital Fortress
The old excitement of thought has half died out, or rather it is diffused in quiet pleasure over a life instead of being concentrated in intense and eager spasms.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth