Quotes about Thought
Half thinking, half dreaming, happier than words can express.
- Emily Bronte
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves, or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?
- Emily Bronte
In literature, too, it is not great achievement to memorize what you have read while not formulating an opinion of your own.
- Epictetus
Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.
- Epictetus
well as the others, namely, the faculty of reason. Reason is unique among the faculties assigned
- Epictetus
I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.
- Norman Geisler
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.
- Peter Scazzero
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson