THOUGHT QUOTES VII

quotations about thought

Thought is merely a property of matter, like the other properties of matter such as mass, motion, color.

ANEELA SHAHZAD

"Mind--The Hard Problem", Daily Pakistan, May 26, 2017


Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience.

ELIZA COOK

"Diamond Dust", Eliza Cook's Journal, Volume 3

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Trying to write an inspiring memoir while repressing such thoroughly uninspiring thoughts is a path to madness.

RON CHARLES

"'Woman No. 17' a juice box of suburban satire", Denver Post, May 26, 2017


Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.

ALAN LIGHTMAN

Einstein's Dreams

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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It's the thought that counts.

SWEDISH PROVERB


To think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

THOMAS BERNHARD

Extinction


Thought is pure energy. Every thought you have, have ever had, and ever will have is creative. The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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Good thoughts are apt to vanish away if they be not speedily embodied in good actions.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to John Jay, August 1, 1786

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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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

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Thought and action should be one.

GEBHARD LEBRECHT VON BLUCHER

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

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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

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If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Alias Grace

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