Quotes about Thought

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God's life in us.

Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!

All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epigrams.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

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

If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said, in the preface or some other place, that it was merely an experiment in thought in which he had even begged the question in many places, then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.