THOUGHT QUOTES IX

quotations about thought

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

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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His high-erected thoughts look'd down upon
The smiling valley of his fruitful heart.

DANIEL WEBSTER

A Monumental Column

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

LEV S. VYGOTSKY

Thought and Language


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

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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A penny for your thought.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues

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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


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


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

PTAH HOTEP

attributed, Day's Collacon


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 challenged only by thought.

KHALED AL-FAISAL

Arab News, May 15, 2017


Never know whose thoughts you're chewing.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

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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


Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Spectator, April 18, 1981

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

HERBERT TUTTLE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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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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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If I supply you a thought you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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