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Quotes about Thought


If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

George Barzan

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

Kin Hubbard

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Italian Proverb

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Thomas A. Percival

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Paul Fix

Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Carl J. Friedrich

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

Louise May

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations—always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Michael Crichton

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Susan Taylor

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale

It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

George Eliot

Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, No end were of "to-night." The fact is this, time flies so fast, That e'er we've time to say "To-morrow's come," presto! behold! "To-morrow" proves "To-day."

Unattributed Author

To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it. To-morrow! 'Tis a sharper--who stakes his penury Against thy plenty--takes thy ready cash, And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises, The currency of idiots--injurious bankrupt, That gulls the easy creditor!

Nathaniel Cotton

There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles Mackay

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

James I of Scotland

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

Horatius Bonar, D.D.

This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well; He hath not touched you yet.

William Shakespeare

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