Quotes about Thought
Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.
- Heinrich Heine
You have control over three things — what you think what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.
- Sonya Friedman
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that we beguiled those who little thought what we were doing, and much disliked it.
- St. Augustine
An Angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit
- Marianne Williamson
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
- Virginia Woolf
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
- Os Guinness
Truth happens to an idea.
- William James
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
- William Wordsworth
Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.
- Henri Nouwen