Quotes About Thought

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!