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It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
ISAAC ASIMOV, Yours, Isaac Asimov
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
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Chas. McPherson, Feb. 25, 1773
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
HENRI POINCARÉ, Of Science and Hypotheses
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
- The native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
- And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
- With this regard, their currents turn awry,
- And lose the name of action.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Nature
It is ... no doubt, true that thought will not at once produce wisdom. It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Small House at Allington
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, The New England Courant, Jul. 9, 1722
- Time is of your own making;
- Its clock ticks in your head.
- The moment you stop thought
- Time too stops dead.
From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to John Jay, Aug. 1, 1786
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, "Notes on Hamlet"
Whatever you do, you must remain nimble in your thinking. Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Brisingr
I don't believe in thought. Too much thinking.
PHILIP MOELLER, The Roadhouse in Arden
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
The wish is often father to the thought.
JOHN SAUL, Black Lightning
Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, Eragon
Our thoughts at least are ours.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear
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