THOUGHT QUOTES VIII

quotations about thought

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Culture and Value

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Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Thought"


It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

ARISTOPHANES

The Frogs

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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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A fickle goddess Thought at times--
Try ne'er so hard we catch her not.
We try to think: 'tis all in vain--
Imprisoned never is a thought.
Like lightning flashing through the clouds,
It comes--a light, and then is gone,
A star which falls adown through space,
Again it comes as morning dawn.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"What is Thought?"

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A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought,
Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Alias Grace

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Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Trying to write an inspiring memoir while repressing such thoroughly uninspiring thoughts is a path to madness.

RON CHARLES

"'Woman No. 17' a juice box of suburban satire", Denver Post, May 26, 2017


Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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It is not the man that gives me most of outward things that helps me to live; but the man who gives me thoughts and ideas by which a wider sweep of beauty opens to my vision, and kindles in my holy affections, by which I rise nearer to God.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Thought is challenged only by thought.

KHALED AL-FAISAL

Arab News, May 15, 2017


Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Miracle of Right Thought

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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

Epistle to William Hogarth

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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus

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