THOUGHT QUOTES IV

quotations about thought

Our thoughts at least are ours.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear

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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

MAHATMA GANDHI

attributed, Ethical Religion (Ganesan)

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New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Round Table


Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Reflections

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The idea that being in love and having beautiful kids you would die for is going to prevent suicidal thoughts is a lie.

JULIE A. FAST

"Chris Cornell: When Suicide Doesn't Make Sense", Psychology Today, May 19, 2017


In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

JOHN ORTBERG

God Is Closer Than You Think

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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

JOHN GREEN

The Fault in Our Stars

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

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


Thought as such ... is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Negative Dialectics


What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more remote,
Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life--the demon Thought.

LORD BYRON

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Pebble in the Sky

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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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Thought is merely a property of matter, like the other properties of matter such as mass, motion, color.

ANEELA SHAHZAD

"Mind--The Hard Problem", Daily Pakistan, May 26, 2017


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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Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

"On Reading---"

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The course of history has often been turned by sentiment, but by thought never. The thinkers are but valuable ornaments. A safe place is assigned to them on the world's mantelpiece, while humanity basks and blinks stupidly on the hearth.

MAX BEERBOHM

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

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The delicate thought that cannot find expression,
For ruder speech too fair,
That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,
And scatters on the air.

BRET HARTE

"The Mountain Heart's Ease"

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Every thought is a prayer and we should use words and thoughts to manifest good.

ANNA JACYSZYN

"The power of grateful thinking", The Daily Courier, May 30, 2017


Whether thoughts and ideas manifest in a material outcome depends on our transmission of them into perceived reality.

LY DE ANGELES

Tarot Theory and Practice


The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha

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