Quotes about Thought
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
— Victor Hugo
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
— Victor Hugo
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly.
— Ulysses S. Grant
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
— Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
— Victor Hugo
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
— Victor Hugo
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
— Victor Hugo
Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
— Peter Kreeft
It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
He learned by experience that one train of thought left him sad, the other joyful. This was his first reasoning on spiritual matters.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Learning without thought is labor lost.
— Confucius
Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.
— Confucius