Quotes About Thought

Each man has his fancy.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.