thought Quotes

“The first years of man must make provision for the last. He that never thinks, never can be wise.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:wisdom age thought

“It has not come to you by means of teachings! And—thus is my thought, oh exalted one,—nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

topic:thought teaching

“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:mind thought

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

topic:thought

“I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don’t want to think any more, I am because I think that I don’t want to be, I think that I... because... ugh!”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:thought existence

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:thought philosophy

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

topic:reason mind thought

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:freedom action thought

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

topic:thought

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:words thought

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