Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
Bertrand Russell
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds
Paul Valery
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view
Nathaniel Hawthorne
When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected
Vauvenargues
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
Victor Hugo
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
St. Francis De Sales
Human altruism is thought to be based, in part, on empathy. To be empathetic, you need to understand the thoughts and desires of others.
Joan Silk
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain
Elbert Hubbard
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
Soren Kierkegaard
To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.
Sidney Madwed
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
James Harvey Robinson