Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Thought

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
- William Barclay
it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I
- George Bernard Shaw
All intellectual labor is inherently humorous
- George Bernard Shaw
Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.
- George Eliot
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
- George Eliot
In this way, metaphorically speaking, a strong lens applied to Mrs. Cadwallader's match-making will show a play of minute causes producing what may be called thought and speech vortices to bring her the sort of food she needed.
- George Eliot
Only those who know the supremacy of intellectual life - the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it - can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing, soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
- George Eliot
With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness.
- George Eliot
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
- John Polkinghorne
It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
- St. Thomas Aquinas