Thought Quotes
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. (Quote by - Zen Saying)
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. (Quote by - Ludwig Borne)
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! (Quote by - Arthur Hugh Clough)
Who depends on another man's table often dines late. (Quote by - John Ray)
Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. (Quote by - Doménico Cieri Estrada)
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. (Quote by - Eric Berne)
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Molière)
If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip. (Quote by - Audrey Foris)
It is better to light 1 candle than to curse the darkness. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. (Quote by - G.C. Lichtenberg)
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.~W.B. Yeats)
Great thoughts come from the heart. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Quote by - Henri Louis Bergson)
First thoughts are not always the best. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
The future influences the present just as much as the past. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. (Quote by - Jean Paul Sartre)
What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
The power of Thought, - the magic of the Mind! (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. (Quote by - Lewis Carrol)
Thought once awakened does not again slumber. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world? (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. (Quote by - Ram Dass)
You can see a lot by just looking. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. (Quote by - Baba Ram Dass)
Thought is borne of failure. (Quote by - Lancelot Law Whyte)
We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. (Quote by - Alexander Jodorowsky)
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion)
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. (Quote by - Jeb Dickerson)
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (Quote by - Aesop)
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? (Quote by - Matthew)
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (Quote by - Santayana, Essays)
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. (Quote by - Buddha)
I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. (Quote by - Albert Szent-Györgyi)
There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! (Quote by - Arthur Hugh Clough)
How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? (Quote by - Laurel Hoodwrit)
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. (Quote by - Roger Miller)
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Quote by - Niels Bohr)
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. (Quote by - Bible)
We become aware of the void as we fill it. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lec)
You cannot step into the same river twice. (Quote by - Heraclitus
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Quote by - Stanislaus I of Poland)
Seeking is not always the way to find. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. (Quote by - Edward Albee)
The mind grows by what it feeds on. (Quote by - J. G. Holland)
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. (Quote by - Robert von Musil)
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. (Quote by - Cicero)
Before I travelled my road I was my road. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. (Quote by - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper)
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." (Quote by - Arthur Stanley Eddington)
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
Never express yourself more clearly than you think. (Quote by - Niels Henrik David Bohr)
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. (Quote by - Dr Seuss)
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. (Quote by - Jams Harvey Robinson)
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered.Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
If a placebo has an effect, is it any less real than the real thing? (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. (Quote by - James Thurber)
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. (Quote by - Terri Minsky)
It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. (Quote by - Chang Ch'ao)
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Sow a thought and reap an act. (Quote by - Bible)
One thought fills immensity. (Quote by - William Blake)
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)
Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. (Quote by - S.A. Sachs)
I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
The kings of modern thought are dumb. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? (Quote by - Maurice Freehill)
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. (Quote by - Georg Hegel)
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Quote by - Navajo Proverb)
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. (Quote by - Zen Buddhist Proverb)
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. (Quote by - William Blake)
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzche)
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. (Quote by - John Muir)
Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? (Quote by - John Lancaster Spalding)
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. (Quote by - Lee Segall)
The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. (Quote by - Sarah Orne Jewett)
I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)
It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to. (Quote by - J.r.r. Tolkien)
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? (Quote by - Robert Brault)
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. (Quote by - John Locke)
Learning without thought is labor lost. (Quote by - Confucius)
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. (Quote by - Matsuo Basho)
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
No brain is stronger than its weakest think. (Quote by - Thomas L. Masson)
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? (Quote by - George Gordon)
Arouse the mind without resting it on anything. (Quote by - Diamond Sutra)
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. (Quote by - George Sand)
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. (Quote by - Terry Josephson)
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. (Quote by - Charles C. Finn)
By daily dying I have come to be. (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
Skin is a covering for our immortality. (Quote by - Ever Garrison)
The first thought is often the best. (Quote by - Bishop Joseph Butler)
When the student is ready, the master appears. (Quote by - Buddhist Proverb)
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
A library is thought in cold storage. (Quote by - Herbert Samuel)
