THOUGHT QUOTES IX

quotations about thought

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Beware of producing crude thoughts; study till thy words are matured.

PTAH HOTEP

attributed, Day's Collacon


Food for thought gives some folks indigestion.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought -- a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

MARK TWAIN

The Mysterious Stranger

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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Spectator, April 18, 1981

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A penny for your thought.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues

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Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

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The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

PAUL ADRIAN MAURICE DIRAC

attributed, Cosmology of Lemaître


A new thought belongs to the world, and is no man's patent.

HERBERT TUTTLE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

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Each flying thought, a flying thought pursues.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Thought"


If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

DORIS LESSING

Shikasta


It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race's great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam.

JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON

The Field of Philosophy

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Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better than we are.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


What you are thinking about, you are becoming.

MUHAMMAD ALI

Esquire, February 2012

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My thoughts were like mercury--always shifting away before I could grab them or form them into a cohesive shape.

DAN SIMMONS

Endymion

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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,
Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart
Made purple riot.

JOHN KEATS

"The Eve of Saint Agnes"

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