Great Throughts Treasury

"If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening." - George Barzan

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." -

"Have you ever noticed or thought about how little eye contact most of us have with strangers? Why? Are we afraid of them? What keeps us from opening our hearts to people we don't know?" - Richard Carlson

"What is required for effective change is continuity of sincere effort to release and let go of inefficient thought patterns from the past." - Doc Childre

"At the present time, global interdependence is celebrated as a self-evident good. The royal road to development, peace, and harmony is thought to be the unrelenting conquest of each nation's market by all other nations." - Herman E. Daly

"Time and again, the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally, by pure thought, without any empirical foundations - in short, by metaphysics." - Albert Einstein

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." - Albert Einstein

"Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt." -

"The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Thought is the labor of intellect, reverie is its pleasure." - Victor Hugo

"The universe can be pictured...as consisting of pure thought." -

"The answer to [our social problems] lies in democratic free thought where ideas may be generated, challenged, and accepted or rejected on the basis of scientific examination and verification, and evaluated on the basis of the highest human values that emerge from the developing society." - Gerald Alexander Larue

"Probably no invention came more easily to man than when he thought up heaven." -

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act." - Orison Swett Marden

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind." - Daphne Du Maurier, fully Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning

"Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age." -

"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day." - Alex Noble

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable." -

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." - Peace Pilgrim, born Mildred Lisette Norman Ryder

"A library is thought in cold storage." - Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

"We are by nature thinking beings, and if we cannot escape anxiety about the inherent structure of our thought processes, how can we hope to creative purposive ideals that are congruent with reality instead of deflecting us from it?" - Irving Singer

"The tendency to form hierarchies shows itself in petty ways in corporations and bureaucracies, where people place enormous importance on how big their office is and how many windows it has. None of this shows that hierarchy is good, or desirable, or even inevitable; but it does show that getting rid of it is not going to be as easy as previous revolutionaries thought." - Peter Singer

"Nietzsche’s approach developed eventually into a program for radically questioning all the foundations of Western thought. We are slaves to convention, he says - we base our whole lives on attitudes and ideas whose premises, if we ever get round to actually examining them, we reject. This makes ours an inauthentic way of living, a dead way of living. We must re-evaluate our values in the light of what we honestly do believe and feel." - J. P. Stern, fully Joseph Peter Maria Stern

"Human thought, like God, makes the world in its own image." -

"thought, like God, makes the world in its own image." -

"Human thought, like God, makes the world in its own image." - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

"thought, like God, makes the world in its own image." - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

"Human thought, like God, makes the world in its own image." -

"thought, like God, makes the world in its own image." -

"Men who have no property can injure one another only in their persons or reputations. But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, thought he to whom the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. It is otherwise with the injuries to property. The benefit of the person who does the injury is often equal to the loss of him who suffers." - Adam Smith

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought." - Agnes Repplier

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought." -

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought." -

"Every thought is a prayer. Every thought that we think is like an order that we place with God, who is prepared to give us all that we ask for in the form of our thoughts. The more we dwell on any thought, the more likely we are to see that thought manifested in our experience." - Alan Cohen

"Every thought is a prayer. Every thought that we think is like an order that we place with God, who is prepared to give us all that we ask for in the form of our thoughts. The more we dwell on any thought, the more likely we are to see that thought manifested in our experience." -

"Every thought is a prayer. Every thought that we think is like an order that we place with God, who is prepared to give us all that we ask for in the form of our thoughts. The more we dwell on any thought, the more likely we are to see that thought manifested in our experience." -

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." -

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyrápolt

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." -

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady action. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation, - preserving in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." - Alexander Graham Bell

"In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. The existence of thought is as fundamental as for instance, the physiochemical equilibria of blood serum. The sepration of eh qualitative from the quantitative grew still wider when Descartes created the dualism of the body and soul. Then, the manifestations of the mind became inexplicable. The material was definitely isolated from the spiritual. Organic structures and physiological mechanisms assumed a far greater reality than thought, pleasure, sorrow and beauty. This error switched civilization to the road which led science to triumph and man to degradation." - Alexis Carrel

"Sin is the refusal to submit to the order of things. Any act or thought which tends to diminish, disintegrate or destroy life in its specifically human expression is a sin." - Alexis Carrel

"Philosophy begins in wonder, and at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains." - Alfred North Whitehead

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains." - Alfred North Whitehead

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man." - Amos Bronson Alcott

"Nature is thought immersed in matter." - Amos Bronson Alcott

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man." - Amos Bronson Alcott

"Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of the centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved." - André Malraux