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Quotes About Thought

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.
~ Horace
With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
~ James Weldon Johnson
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh."
~ John C. Reilly
Never speak more clearly than you think.
~ Jeremy Bernstein
Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
~ Stanley Kubrick
I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.
~ KRS-One
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
~ Liev Schreiber
Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.
~ Martin Amis
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
~ Havelock Ellis
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.
~ Charley Pride
Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.
~ Stephen Richards
I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I will wake up every morning with the protection of the American people my first thought.
~ Loretta Lynch
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The morning sky is a thought of the stars.
~ Will Advise
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
~ W. H. Auden
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
~ Karl Kraus