Quotes
Quotes about Thought
The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!
Thought once awakened does not again slumber.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,
In indolent vacuity of thought.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
A library is thought in cold storage.
One thought fills immensity.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Thought is borne of failure.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Learning without thought is labor lost.
