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Quotes about thought




Among all the different expressions which may render one of our thoughts, only one is the right one.
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères / 
 






The key to every man is his thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 
 






All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols / 
 






But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, require an anchorage if they are not to revolve and circle around themselves; they too weigh down under nothingness.
Stefan Zweig - The Royal Game / 
 






The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson /






How close may our thoughts come at times to grazing on a great discovery?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Sudelbücher / 
 






I am a friend of freedom of thought and no thought is so absurd that I lack courage to grasp hold of it.
Soren Kierkegaard / 






Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
Hermann Hesse /






Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David Thoreau /






I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable, if tasted in the house.
Henry David Thoreau / 






At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Charles de Gaulle / 






The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 
 






The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
Soren Kierkegaard /






A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi / 






There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Alphonse de Lamartine / 






Our thoughts are free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four / 
 






An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature / 
 






The dream is the luxury of thinking.
Jules Renard / 






A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau /






All original thinking takes place in images, and this is why imagination is so necessary an instrument of thought, and minds that lack imagination will never accomplish much.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation / 
 






Who am I? Subject and object in one — contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte /






True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor W. Adorno /






Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell /






The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard /






If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton /






One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire /






Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
René Descartes /






The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius /










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