Thought Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

55 Thought Quotes
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“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha Quotes
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
Buddha Quotes
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Buddha Quotes
“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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
Source: Cloth of Gold--Prelude
“First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
“Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
Source: Don Garzia (III, 1)
“The kings of modern thought are dumb.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes
Source: Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
“Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
“I'll put that in my considering cap.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 1)
“Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 6-7)
“Sow a thought and reap an act.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 6-7)
“Never express yourself more clearly than you think.”
Niels Henrik David Bohr Quotes
Source: Einstein Lived Here
“Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes
Source: Caxtoniana (essay XIV)
“The first thought is often the best. - Bishop Joseph Butler,”
Bishop Joseph Butler Quotes
Source: Sermon on the Character of Balaam--Seventh Sermon
“I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113)
“Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 115)
“What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold--To Inez (canto I, st. 84, l. 6)
“The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Corsair (canto I, st. 8)
“Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture I)