Quotes about Thought
in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.
- Dorothy Sayers
And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with daily life and thought.
- Dorothy Sayers
Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.
- John Kennedy
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
- John Quincy Adams
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
- John Calvin
A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.
- Karl Barth
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
- Napoleon Hill
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel