Quotes About Thought

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.