THOUGHT QUOTES VIII

quotations about thought

It's the thought that counts.

SWEDISH PROVERB


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

ARISTOPHANES

The Frogs

Tags: Aristophanes


Ideas are the seeds of thought, but they do not produce flowers unless the soil where they are sown is fertile.

LADY BLESSINGTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


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

JAMES ALLEN

As a Man Thinketh


To follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

To the Lighthouse

Tags: Virginia Woolf


Thoughts ... have tarried in my mind and peopled its inner chambers,
The sober children of reason, or desultory train of fancy.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

Tags: Martin Farquhar Tupper


Great thoughts come from the heart.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Thought"


A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.

LEV S. VYGOTSKY

Thought and Language


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?"

Tags: Ardelia Cotton Barton


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

Tags: Orison Swett Marden


Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Some Mistakes of Moses


Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

Tags: Philip James Bailey


A thought by thought is piled, till some great truth
Is loosened, and the nations echo round,
Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

Tags: Edward Bulwer Lytton


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


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

Tags: E. H. Chapin


Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

JAMES GATES PERCIVAL

"Sonnet", Clio


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

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Confucius