Quotes
Quotes about Thought
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!"
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; "I am rising to a man's work."
Death,--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Thought the moon was made of green cheese.
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Life is sensation, which includes thought, and the sensation of having sensation, which ought to take care of all your stupid worries about identity.
A dream, yes, but for everyone the same. The thought that wove it never dropped a stitch. The absolute was everybody's pitch
'It is warmth,' he thought, 'that we are finally faithful to.'
He thought that the great white body of the world was set upon by an illness from beyond, gratuitous and incurable
