THOUGHT QUOTES
quotations about thought
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Dhammapada
Trade with thoughts as with gold.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
If you're thinking already, you might as well think big.
DONALD TRUMP
Think Big
Refresh me with a great thought.
E. P. HERDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thoughts are as the sands of the seashore--infinite.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The man who gives me a new thought enriches me.
REUEN THOMAS
Thoughts for the Thoughtful
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Yours, Isaac Asimov
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The New England Courant, July 9, 1722
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
THOMAS GRAY
Progress of Poesy
Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Eragon
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Chas. McPherson, February 25, 1773
Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.
ANGELUS SILESIUS
Messenger of the Heart
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
Thoughts are so great--aren't they, sir? They seem to lie upon us like a great flood.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Vivian Grey
The most weighty truths may strike, but without meditation cannot enter and influence the mind.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Better to think wrongly with your own head, than to think rightly with the head of another.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts