Thought Quotes

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat [...] Everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together... perceptible phenomena... through systematic thought.

No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.