Quotes About Thought

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

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

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.

I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.

That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.