THOUGHT QUOTES VIII

quotations about thought

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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It's the thought that counts.

SWEDISH PROVERB


A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Culture and Value

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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Alias Grace

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We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

THOMAS BERNHARD

Extinction


Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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It is not the man that gives me most of outward things that helps me to live; but the man who gives me thoughts and ideas by which a wider sweep of beauty opens to my vision, and kindles in my holy affections, by which I rise nearer to God.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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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

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Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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A fickle goddess Thought at times--
Try ne'er so hard we catch her not.
We try to think: 'tis all in vain--
Imprisoned never is a thought.
Like lightning flashing through the clouds,
It comes--a light, and then is gone,
A star which falls adown through space,
Again it comes as morning dawn.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"What is Thought?"

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought,
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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A thought by thought is piled, till some great truth
Is loosened, and the nations echo round,
Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound

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Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Miracle of Right Thought

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Thought is challenged only by thought.

KHALED AL-FAISAL

Arab News, May 15, 2017


With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

Epistle to William Hogarth

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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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