Quotes about Thought
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.
- Marianne Williamson
just the thought of some temporary discomfort was enough to keep him from the spiritual adventure of a lifetime.
- KP Yohannan
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Naught is all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought by day and by night, Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. Be thou my wisdom, thou my true word; I ever with thee, thou with me, Lord.
- Brennan Manning
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.
- Henry David Thoreau
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
- Henry David Thoreau
The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.
- Henry David Thoreau
The philosopher said: "From an army of three divisions one can take away its general, and put it in disorder; from the man the most abject and vulgar one cannot take away his thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
- Herman Melville
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.
- Herman Melville
So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
- Herman Melville