Quotes about Thought

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?

In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.

Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.

well as the others, namely, the faculty of reason. Reason is unique among the faculties assigned

I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.