Thought Quotes & Sayings
These thought quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. - Alfred North Whitehead
So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then un-compromised, indifferent as his God. - Herman Melville
Women often ask, 'What do men 'really' want, deep in their souls?' The best answer, based on in-depth analysis of the complex and subtle interplay of thought, instinct, and emotion that constitutes the male psyche, is that, deep in their souls, men want to watch stuff go 'bang.' - Dave Barry
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. [Les Misérables 1862] - Victor Hugo
The inexperienced, and crackpots, and people like that, make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students, make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. - Richard Feynman
Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. - J. R. R. Tolkien
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face, as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. - Virginia Woolf