Quotes About Thought

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

I mix them with my brains, sir.

The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

We need a reason to speak, but none to keep silent.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

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

One thought fills immensity.

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

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

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.

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

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