THOUGHT QUOTES

quotations about thought

Thought quote

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nature

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We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Dhammapada

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Trade with thoughts as with gold.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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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, July 9, 1722

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Thoughts are as the sands of the seashore--infinite.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

THOMAS GRAY

Progress of Poesy

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If you're thinking already, you might as well think big.

DONALD TRUMP

Think Big

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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Chas. McPherson, February 25, 1773

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The man who gives me a new thought enriches me.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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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

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Refresh me with a great thought.

E. P. HERDER

attributed, Day's Collacon


As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh

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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


Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.

ANGELUS SILESIUS

Messenger of the Heart

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The most weighty truths may strike, but without meditation cannot enter and influence the mind.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

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Thoughts are so great--aren't they, sir? They seem to lie upon us like a great flood.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede


Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Vivian Grey

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Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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