THOUGHT QUOTES VI

quotations about thought

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

MAHATMA GANDHI

attributed, Ethical Religion (Ganesan)

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A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

radio broadcast, "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", October 16, 1938

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A great thought is best dressed in the simplest language.

CHARLES NORDHOFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


People can live very simple lives, can't they? Tucked away, without thinking. I think the world is what you enter when you think--when you become educated, when you question--because you can be in the big world and be utterly provincial.

V. S. NAIPAUL

The Paris Review, fall 1998

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Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

letter to Lucy Donnely, November 25, 1902

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O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

JOHN KEATS

letter to Benjamin Bailey, November 22, 1817

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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

ARISTOPHANES

The Frogs

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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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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Alas! we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot; our high resolve look down upon our slumbering acts.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

The Venetian Bracelet: The Lost Pleiad


A thought embodied and embraced in fit words walks the earth a living being.

E. P. WHIPPLE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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Two heads are better than one.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs

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

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Negative Dialectics


They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

PHILIP SIDNEY

Arcadia

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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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And a lot of times, the journey of someone who is struggling with mental health issues or with suicidal thoughts is a long, lonely walk.

TERRESA HUMPHRIES-WADSWORTH

"Walking Across Wyoming", Powell Tribune, May 26, 2017


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"

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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.

VERA NAZARIAN

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration