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Thought Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“There were Hegelians, now there are only nihilists.”
Ivan Turgenev
Philosophy
,
Change
,
Ideology
,
Society
,
Thought
2.
“I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.”
Ivan Turgenev
Independence
,
Thought
,
Belief
,
Identity
,
Confidence
3.
“I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.”
Ivan Turgenev
Individuality
,
Belief
,
Independence
,
Thought
,
Opinion
4.
“I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.”
Ivan Turgenev
Expression
,
Freedom
,
Thought
,
Honesty
,
Mind
5.
“The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.”
Camille Paglia
Western Mind
,
Philosophy
,
Definitions
,
Boundaries
,
Thought
6.
“Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.”
Camille Paglia
Promiscuity
,
Love
,
Gender
,
Identity
,
Thought
7.
“Any idea that is held in the mind, that is either feared or revered, will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.”
Andrew Carnegie
Mindset
,
Success
,
Thought
,
Manifestation
,
Influence
8.
“If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.”
Andrew Carnegie
Mindset
,
Influence
,
Society
,
Thought
,
Power
9.
“I have something more to do than to feel.”
Charles Lamb
Action
,
Responsibility
,
Thought
,
Perspective
,
Purpose
10.
“Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.”
Charles Lamb
Thought
,
Perspective
,
Wisdom
,
Truth
,
Expression
11.
“He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.”
Charles Lamb
Reading
,
Originality
,
Influence
,
Knowledge
,
Thought
12.
“You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.”
Charles Lamb
Individuality
,
Thought
,
Influence
,
Perspective
,
Originality
13.
“Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.”
Charles Lamb
Reading
,
Knowledge
,
Learning
,
Reflection
,
Thought
14.
“She unbent her mind afterwards – over a book.”
Charles Lamb
Books
,
Relaxation
,
Reading
,
Reflection
,
Thought
15.
“The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.”
Charles Lamb
Imagination
,
Creativity
,
Thought
,
Wandering
,
Freedom
16.
“I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”
Charles Lamb
Reading
,
Thought
,
Knowledge
,
Reflection
,
Books
17.
“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.”
Charles Lamb
Reading
,
Books
,
Thought
,
Escape
,
Knowledge
18.
“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.”
Charles Lamb
Time
,
Space
,
Puzzle
,
Thought
,
Indifference
19.
“Opinions is a species of property – I am always desirous of sharing.”
Charles Lamb
Opinions
,
Property
,
Sharing
,
Thought
,
Perspective
20.
“Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.”
Charles Lamb
Milton
,
Music
,
Literature
,
Thought
,
Reflection
21.
“The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.”
Margaret Fuller
Mind
,
Thought
,
Reflection
,
Wisdom
,
Protection
22.
“I find no intellect comparable to my own.”
Margaret Fuller
Intellect
,
Confidence
,
Individuality
,
Genius
,
Thought
23.
“Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.”
Margaret Fuller
Writing
,
Essays
,
Criticism
,
Expression
,
Thought
24.
“A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. – Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.”
Margaret Fuller
Art
,
Thought
,
Beauty
,
Literature
,
Expression
25.
“We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.”
Margaret Fuller
Expression
,
Thought
,
Creativity
,
Communication
,
Art
26.
“How anyone can remain a Catholic – I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years – after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.”
Margaret Fuller
Religion
,
Catholicism
,
Thought
,
Bias
,
Perspective
27.
“The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.”
Margaret Fuller
Criticism
,
Writing
,
Judgment
,
Analysis
,
Thought
28.
“I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.”
Margaret Fuller
Inquiry
,
Curiosity
,
Thought
,
Pursuit
,
Knowledge
29.
“A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.”
Margaret Fuller
Writing
,
Thought
,
Learning
,
Perception
,
Experience
30.
“Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.”
Margaret Fuller
Mediocrity
,
Middle Age
,
Thought
,
Awareness
,
Growth
31.
“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself.”
Margaret Fuller
Women
,
Thought
,
Reflection
,
Growth
,
Awareness
32.
“Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.”
Margaret Fuller
Tragedy
,
Loneliness
,
Thought
,
Perspective
,
Time
33.
“When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.”
Steven Wright
Comedy
,
Performance
,
Thought
,
Chaos
,
Perspective
34.
“I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.”
Steven Wright
Open-Mindedness
,
Logic
,
Humor
,
Thought
,
Absurdity
35.
“Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.”
Steven Wright
Memory
,
Nostalgia
,
Reflection
,
Life
,
Thought
36.
“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.”
Steven Wright
Mind
,
Daydreaming
,
Thought
,
Distraction
,
Focus
37.
“In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.”
Steven Wright
Future
,
Memory
,
Paradox
,
Perception
,
Thought
38.
“The novel is part of that Western concern with the condition of men, a response to the here and now. In India, thoughtful men have preferred to turn their backs on the here and now and to satisfy what President Radhakrishnan calls ‘the basic human hunger for the unseen’. It is not a good qualification for the writing and reading of novels.”
V.S. Naipaul
Literature
,
Culture
,
Thought
,
Philosophy
,
Society
39.
“How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.”
V.S. Naipaul
Atheism
,
Ideology
,
Belief
,
Freedom
,
Thought
40.
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unraveling.”
V.S. Naipaul
Idealism
,
Reality
,
Perspective
,
Thought
,
Chaos
41.
“I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.”
V.S. Naipaul
Intuition
,
Writing
,
Politics
,
Independence
,
Thought
42.
“My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.”
V.S. Naipaul
Life
,
Time
,
Depth
,
Thought
,
Expression
43.
“There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.”
V.S. Naipaul
Speech
,
Thought
,
Depth
,
Expression
,
Reflection
44.
“Writers should provoke disagreement.”
V.S. Naipaul
Writing
,
Thought
,
Expression
,
Debate
,
Challenge
45.
“Now we are going in a loop.”
Ramakrishna
Repetition
,
Cycle
,
Reflection
,
Awareness
,
Thought
46.
“A thought is an idea in transit.”
Pythagoras
Thought
,
Idea
,
Mind
,
Change
,
Perception
47.
“Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.”
Pythagoras
Thought
,
Speech
,
Consequence
,
Awareness
,
Power
48.
“Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.”
Pythagoras
Morality
,
Thought
,
Action
,
Integrity
,
Caution
49.
“Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.”
Pythagoras
Silence
,
Words
,
Meaning
,
Speech
,
Thought
50.
“The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.”
Pythagoras
Decisions
,
Words
,
Meaning
,
Simplicity
,
Thought
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