Quotes
Quotes about Thought
Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
Flushing his brow.
Thou, silent form, doth tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.
Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
We figure to ourselves
The thing we like; and then we build it up,
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,--
For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,
And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
It is thy very energy of thought
Which keeps thee from thy God.
And oh! I shall find how, day by day,
All thoughts and things look older;
How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay,
And the heart of friendship colder.
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.
A dark horsewhich had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers--
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.
Books are sepulchres of thought.
She floats upon the river of his thoughts.
The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Where'er a noble deed is wrought,
Where'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise.
God blesses still the generous thought,
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And Truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds.
Unthought-like thoughts that are the souls of thought,
