Quotes about Thought
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
— Henry David Thoreau
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
— Henry David Thoreau
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
— Henry Ford
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.
— Ayn Rand
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
— George Eliot
American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
— Jay Parini
As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.
— Mortimer Adler
You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments—the elements of thought—until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
— Mortimer Adler
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
— Napoleon Hill