Thought.—Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.—Abbé Raynal.
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.—Colton.
Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection.—Holmes.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
—Wordsworth.
In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.—Robert Hall.
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.—Buffon.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.—Disraeli.
Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, as much as he please; he will never know any of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?—Pestalozzi.
One thought cannot awake without awakening others.—Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.—Hare.