Quotes About Thought

Freedom of thought and the right to private judgement, in matters of conscience, driven from every corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. Let us cherish the noble guests, and shelter them under the wings of universal toleration.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

He can't think without his hat.

Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is through this that we are linked with God.

To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

As there can be no translation from one language into another which shall not scant the meaning somewhat, or enlarge upon it, so there is no language which can render thought without a jarring and a harshness somewhere.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us

He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

What we need is not so much radical writers as we need radical readers!

Why? Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought, Mocky. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language. The form of this language is … amazing." "What amazes you?" "Mocky, when you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe." He nodded. "And as I see into this language, I begin to see … too much." "It sounds very poetical.

Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemed he—Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C.!That he, who many a year, with toil of breath,Found death in life, may here find life in death.

And what if all of animated natureBe but organic harps diversely fram'd,That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweepsPlastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,At once the Soul of each, and God of All?

O the one life within us and abroad,Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,Rhythm in all thought, and joyance everywhere—Methinks, it should have been impossibleNot to love all things in a world so filled.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

I used to look at Jinks and marvel at her smooth complexion, but over the years I have come to realise that she has been spared wrinkles by virtue of never having succumbed to heavy thought.

windows. What he thought

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.