THOUGHT QUOTES V

quotations about thought

When thoughts cannot find vent and utterance in action, the mind ceases to think. It will not continue to produce its mighty births of power and beauty, to see them fall dead-born into the world, or to be strangled in embryo.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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Thought
Has joys apart, even in blackest woe,
And seizing some fine thread of verity
Knows momentary godhead.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Spanish Gypsy

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Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

CHARLOTTE M. MASON

The Original Home Schooling Series


Thought, stumbling, plods
Past fallen temples, vanished gods,
Altars unincensed, fanes undecked,
Eternal systems flown or wrecked;
Through trackless centuries that grant
To the poor trudge refreshment scant,
Age after age, pants on to find
A melting mirage of the mind.

ALFRED AUSTIN

"A Defence of English Spring", Lyrical Poems

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People, in all but the most favored times and places, are rooted to the places where they were born, think the thoughts of those places, can endure no other thoughts. The next parish even is suspected.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Literary Studies

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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Maid in Waiting

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The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

The Gospel of Buddha

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A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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People can live very simple lives, can't they? Tucked away, without thinking. I think the world is what you enter when you think--when you become educated, when you question--because you can be in the big world and be utterly provincial.

V. S. NAIPAUL

The Paris Review, fall 1998

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And a lot of times, the journey of someone who is struggling with mental health issues or with suicidal thoughts is a long, lonely walk.

TERRESA HUMPHRIES-WADSWORTH

"Walking Across Wyoming", Powell Tribune, May 26, 2017


Cut off, or cut free, from speech, thought assumes its baroque writerly structures. Speech in a language of which he knows only a few words involves the conscious, patient, awkward, hilarious, and typically unsuccessful translation of thought. This process illuminates the gulf between thought and speech, which is not quite identical to the gulf between inside and outside.

MICHAEL W. CLUNE

"Thought Against Life: Cyrus Console's 'Romanian Notebook'", L.A. Review of Books, May 21, 2017


The course of history has often been turned by sentiment, but by thought never. The thinkers are but valuable ornaments. A safe place is assigned to them on the world's mantelpiece, while humanity basks and blinks stupidly on the hearth.

MAX BEERBOHM

The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only reveal the poverty that necessitates the loan.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience.

ELIZA COOK

"Diamond Dust", Eliza Cook's Journal, Volume 3

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Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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Ah, the mighty men who conquer,
And the men whose words we drink,
Are the men who quit the jangle,
Quit the turmoil and the wrangle
Of the world, and turn their faces
To secluded, silent places,
Where in solitude they think.

EDGAR GUEST

"Think"

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A thought embodied and embraced in fit words walks the earth a living being.

E. P. WHIPPLE

attributed, Day's Collacon