Thought Quotes
These are some of the best 'Thought' quotations and sayings.
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"Give me," said Herder to his son, as he lay in the parched weariness of his last illness, give me a great thought, that I may quicken myself with it."
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A man might frame, and let loose a star, to roll in its orbit, and yet not have done so memorable a thing before God, as he who lets go a golden-orbed thought to roll through the generations of time.
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A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every tune such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.
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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
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Alas, we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot; our high resolves look down upon our slumbering acts.
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All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
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Earnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may be errors.
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Every great originating mind produces in some way a change in society; every great originating mind, whose exercise is controlled by duty, effects a beneficial change. This effect may be immediate, may be remote. A nation may be in a tumult today for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.
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Every time you ask a question or make a statement to someone, you are participating in his or her thought process.
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Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
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Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
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