Thought Quotes

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think I can't.

Rex Steven Sikes

Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.

John J. Emerick

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

Samuel Johnson

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Sir Isaac Newton

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

Kahlil Gibran

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Ramana Maharshi

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Ramana Maharshi

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Eugenio Montale

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Bertrand Russell

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Martin H. Fischer

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious .

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Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

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No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

William Hazlitt

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Northrop Frye

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

William Shakespeare

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

Mal Pancoast

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Immanuel Kant