Quotes of Thought - somelinesforyou

“ Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ”

- Confucius

“ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. ”

- James Allen

“ Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. ”

- Richard Darman

“ Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould

“ In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ”

- John Locke

“ When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish. ”

- Huang Po

“ Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you. ”

- Bishop Steere

“ I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea. ”

- Oliver North

“ O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts. ”

- John Keats

“ Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. ”

- Herbert Victor Prochnow

“ The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Make not your thoughts your prisons. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. ”

- Anne Germain De Stael

“ Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! ”

- Jean Sibelius

“ What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think "I can't.". ”

- Rex Steven Sikes

“ There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? ”

- William Hart Coleridge
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