Thought

22 quotes.

• I think, therefore I am.

  René Descartes

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

  Attributed to Henry Ford

• A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

  Georges Bernanos

• Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  Anonymous

• Failures are divided into two classes --those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

  Anonymous

• I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

  Anonymous

• I think it would be a good idea.

  Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

• It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

  Mark Twain

• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

  Humphrey Davy

• Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

  James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

  Henry B. Adams

• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

  Jonathan Swift

• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  Orison S. Marden

• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  Peter F. Drucker

• Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

  Winnie the Pooh

• The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action.

  Eric Hoffer

• The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

  Sarah J. Hale

• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

  Arthur P. Stanley

• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind.

  Anonymous

• I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

  A. J. Balfour (said of Winston Churchill)

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