quotations about thought
Thought is required wherever a statement is proved, or, it may be, a general truth enunciated.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGO
Les Misérables
You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive chords of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears.
JAMES ALLEN
Above Life's Turmoil
He who influences the thought of his times influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Dialectic of Enlightenment
An artist carrying a thought from his mind into expression is like a child bearing a bucket brimming with water from the well to the house--part of the content is spilled.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
I'll put that in my considering cap.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Loyal Subject
Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Cenci
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Conduct of Life
Come near me! I do weave
A chain I cannot break--I am possest
With thoughts too swift and strong for one lone human breast.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Revolt of Islam
Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
Look Ma, Life's Easy
Freedom of speech and thought is not just for warm, fuzzy ideas that we find comfortable. It's for ideas that we find offensive.
FAREED ZAKARIA
Fareed Zakaria GPS, May 28, 2017