Quotes
Quotes about Thought
What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.
