Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Hare.

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. A. B. Alcott.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber. Carlyle.

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Emerson.

Thought, true labour of any kind, highest 5 virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to free itself—that is thought. Carlyle.

Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with the day that called it forth. Carlyle.

Thought works in silence, so does virtue. Carlyle.

Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public calamity of our day. Ruskin.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. Shakespeare.

Thoughts are not always at our beck; we 10 must wait till they come. Schopenhauer.