Quotes about Thought
When you say that you have a policy, you are signaling that your No is not a one-time message but an ongoing practice to which you have given a lot of thought. It is a signal of resolve, a sign that you will not budge.
- William Ury
A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
- John Updike
although all debts in word, deed, and thought were washed away in baptism. He, then, who sees aright, sees whence, and when, and where he must hope for that perfection to which nothing can be added.
- Jerome
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
- Victor Hugo
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
- Victor Hugo
I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly.
- Ulysses S. Grant
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
- Victor Hugo
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
- Victor Hugo
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Victor Hugo
Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
- Peter Kreeft
It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman