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Quotes About Thought

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
~ W. H. Auden
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
~ H. L. Mencken
Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.
~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
~ Nazanin Boniadi
I recommend that you try a little mental floss.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
~ Joseph Addison
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Mind is never a problem. Mindset is
~ Narendra Modi
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.
~ Bobby Robson
I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?
~ John Mulaney
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.
~ Leonard Woolf
Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny.
~ Unknown
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions
~ Nathaniel Branden
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
~ Indira Gandhi
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
~ George Bernard Shaw
Think of me fondly when we've said good bye. Remember me, once in a while. Please promise me you'll try. When you find that once again you long to take your heart back and be free, if you ever find a moment spare a thought for me.
~ Unknown
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
~ Bergen Evans
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos
~ John Dewey
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I thought of you today. I saw a cockroach and you crossed my mind. I stepped on it.
~ Unknown