THOUGHT QUOTES VIII

quotations about thought

For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet, towards men, are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be, without power and place, as the vantage, and commanding ground.

FRANCIS BACON

"Of Great Place", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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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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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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Great thoughts come from the heart.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Ideas are the seeds of thought, but they do not produce flowers unless the soil where they are sown is fertile.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL

"Sonnet", Clio


And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

HENRY VAUGHN

They are all gone into the World of Light


Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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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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Action helps thought, and thought helps action. By action thought is rendered more masculine, attains to greater breadth, and acquires a certain nobleness and dignity. Thanks to thought, action may become more definite, more precise, more fruitful.

ALFRED AUSTIN

The Bridling of Pegasus

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The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Thoughts ... have tarried in my mind and peopled its inner chambers,
The sober children of reason, or desultory train of fancy.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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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Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Thought"


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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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus

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