Quotes About Thought

Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction.

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.

The fiercely independent Arnold did not need the encouragement of Loyalists: he may have thought of changing sides as early as the seniority controversy two years earlier

Faith is a continuation of reason.

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring.

But if ever there was an argument to be made for the complex, it was sitting before him at this very moment.

Hands, do what you're bid:Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.

A thoughtOf that late death took all my heart for speech.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.

The world is governed by opinion.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.