Thought Quotes - page 2

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. (Fran Lebowitz)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." View quote
C. S. Lewis
Logic is the anatomy of thought. View quote
John Locke
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy? View quote
Margaret Atwood
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. (Steven Wright)
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
The universe is a thought of God. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. View quote
Emo Philips
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. View quote
Francis Bacon
One thought fills immensity. View quote
William Blake
If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. View quote
Douglas Adams
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. (Thomas More)
The ancestor of every action is a thought. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. View quote
Stendhal
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. View quote
Spike Milligan
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