Thought Quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle)
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. View quote
Euripides
Language is the dress of thought. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Learning without thought is labor lost and thought without learning is perilous. View quote
Confucius
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. View quote
Sallust
The happiest life is to be without thought. View quote
Sophocles
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. View quote
Pythagoras
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. View quote
Graham Greene
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. (Immanuel Kant)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. View quote
Richard Bach
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. View quote
John Tyler
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. View quote
Max Euwe
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. View quote
James Baldwin
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. View quote
Napoleon Hill
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. (Georges Bernanos)
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. View quote
Joseph Conrad