thought Quotes

“the ancestor of every action is a thought.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws

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“language . . . is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“But a thought must directly, or indirectly, by means of certain signs, relate ultimately to intuitions; consequently, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

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“To attain the highth and depth of thy eternal ways all human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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“The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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