Thought Quotes

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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few. — Cato the Elder
An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards,… — Byron Katie
I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell. — Thomas Browne
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one… — George Eliot
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I… — Therese of Lisieux
I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times… — Eric Schmidt
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. — John B. S. Haldane
My first thought is always of light. — Galen Rowell
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. — Peter Ustinov
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. — Philip Pullman
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another… — Dan Simmons
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be.… — Shakti Gawain
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. — Karl Kraus
There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush… — John Keats
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — William Wordsworth
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. — Michel de Montaigne
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone… — Eleanor Roosevelt
We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be. — Denis Waitley
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. — Orison Swett Marden
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I… — Bruce Sterling

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