Quotes About Thought

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

Blinking through the fading light and the gently falling snow, she thought for a moment the neighborhood they were driving through looked oddly familiar, though she was sure she'd never been here before.

I hope you don't mind the intrusion," she said. "I thought we'd air out your chambers while you were downstairs at breakfast." "We?" he repeated ominously, wondering just how many witnesses there were going to be to her murder.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.