THOUGHT QUOTES III
quotations about thought
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sartor Resartus
Thoughts are blossoms of the mind.
JOHANN AUGUST HERMES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Heroes and Hero Worship
Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Old thoughts never die.
DR. MACKAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Last Essays
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Kavanagh", Prose Works
Thoughts are things.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Thought is twin sister of existence; they were born together, and will die together.
PARMENIDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
lecture, November 18, 1862
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
LEON BLUM
attributed, Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Force a hand ... and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.
DAN BROWN
Digital Fortress
Our thoughts at least are ours.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear
The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
The Gospel of Buddha
The old excitement of thought has half died out, or rather it is diffused in quiet pleasure over a life instead of being concentrated in intense and eager spasms.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
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