Thought Quotes

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.

~ Douglas Woolf

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

~ Norman Corwin

What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?

~ Mitch Albom

A library is thought in cold storage.

~ Viscount Herbert Samuel

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

~ Victor Hugo

An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

~ Austin O'malley

Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.

~ Sigmund Freud

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

~ Theodore Roszak

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

~ Paul Bourget

One thought fills immensity.

~ William Blake

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

~ Idi Amin

Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

~ Victor Hugo

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

~ A. E. Housman

When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.

~ Salman Rushdie

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.

~ Lewis Thomas

All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

~ Robert Frost

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

~ John Dewey

The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by eating one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.

~ Francis C. Benedict

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

~ Leslie Stephen

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

~ Albert Schweitzer

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

~ Samuel Johnson

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.

~ James Harvey Robinson

Thinking is like loving and dying - each of us must do it for himself.

~ Josiah Royce

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

~ John Galsworthy

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

~ Anatole France

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

~ Voltaire

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

~ Bible

The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

~ Henry James

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

~ Chinese Proverb

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

~ Doris Lessing

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

~ John Locke

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity the intolerable labour of thought.

~ Learned Hand

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

What was once thought can never be unthought.

~ Friedrich Dilrrenmatt

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

~ Walter Lippmann

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

~ William M. Kelly

Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.

~ Kin Hubbard

Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.

~ Fogg Brackell