Quotes
Quotes about Thought
Exhausting thought, And having wisdom with each studious year.
Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise.
Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they seemed. The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest, And hung on the ether's invisible breast; Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright,-- Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give As one near death to those that wish him live.
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.
First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The kings of modern thought are dumb.
Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.
Sow a thought and reap an act.
The first thought is often the best. - Bishop Joseph Butler,
I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.
