Thought Quotes

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Sir Philip Sidney

Great thoughts come from the heart.

The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

Miguel de Cervantes

Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Cicero

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Confucius

I think therefore I am.

René Descartes

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

William Hazlitt

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

A penny for your thought.

John Lyly

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Matthew

As he thinketh in his heart so is he.

Proverbs

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

William Shakespeare

What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

Ayn Rand

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Bible

The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Chinese Proverb

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich Dilrrenmatt

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Walter Lippmann

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

William M. Kelly

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fisher

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

Thought is born of failure.

Lancelot Law Whyte

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Spanish Proverb

A library is thought in cold storage.

Viscount Herbert Samuel

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

Austin O'Malley

Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

Theodore Roszak

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

One thought fills immensity.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Idi Amin

Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.

All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

Francis C. Benedict

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Albert Schweitzer

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.

James Harvey Robinson

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?

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