THOUGHT QUOTES VI

quotations about thought

Ah, the mighty men who conquer,
And the men whose words we drink,
Are the men who quit the jangle,
Quit the turmoil and the wrangle
Of the world, and turn their faces
To secluded, silent places,
Where in solitude they think.

EDGAR GUEST

"Think"

Tags: Edgar Guest


To think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

Tags: Herman Melville


I am full of thoughts,
A thousand wheels toss my uncertain fears,
There is a storm in my hot boiling brains,
Which rises without wind. A horrid one.

THOMAS DEKKER

The Noble Spanish Soldier

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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only reveal the poverty that necessitates the loan.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

Tags: Eliza Cook


Thought exists at the farthest remove from the vocalizations of the human animal.

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

"Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console's 'Romanian Notebook'", L.A. Review of Books, May 21, 2017


Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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I don't believe in thought. Too much thinking.

PHILIP MOELLER

The Roadhouse in Arden

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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall

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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

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee


When thoughts cannot find vent and utterance in action, the mind ceases to think. It will not continue to produce its mighty births of power and beauty, to see them fall dead-born into the world, or to be strangled in embryo.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

LEV S. VYGOTSKY

Thought and Language


Every thought is a seed which inevitably will bear fruit of its own kind.

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

C. J. CHERRYH

Chanur's Legacy

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience.

ELIZA COOK

"Diamond Dust", Eliza Cook's Journal, Volume 3

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Thought
Has joys apart, even in blackest woe,
And seizing some fine thread of verity
Knows momentary godhead.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy

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You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

Tags: John Thornton


Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

Tags: Alan Lightman


Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Thought"