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Quotes About Thought

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.
~ Sam Harris
Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.
~ Auliq Ice
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
~ Albert Camus
Healing is the result of clear thinking.
~ Ernest Holmes
Thought is the seed of action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness.. an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
~ Richard Carlson
Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.
~ Bob Proctor
You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.
~ Stephen Richards
Fate can not be proven or disproven so act knowing that destiny is a product of your every thought and every action.
~ Matthew Donnelly
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
~ J. William Fulbright
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
~ Etienne Gilson
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
~ Benjamin Hooks
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
~ Albert Camus
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
When we read history we find that in all ages people have thought, this is the dark age.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
~ William Kristol
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
~ William Cowper