"A great many people mistake opinions for thought."
~~~~~ Herbert V. Prochnow
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thought. Show all posts
Friday, February 19, 2016
Monday, February 23, 2015
Thought for Today
"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought."
~~~~~ Karl Jaspers
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Thought for Today
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
~~~~~ Daphne du Maurier
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Thought for Today
"Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think."
~~~~~ Adela Florence Nicolson
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Thought for Today
"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."
~~~~~ William Wordsworth
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Thought for Today
"Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss."
~~~~~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Thought for Today
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
~~~~~ Bernard Baruch
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Thought for Today
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
~~~~~ Bertrand Russell
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thought for Today
"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."
~~~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Monday, May 24, 2010
Thought for Today
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."
~~~~~ Thomas Alva Edison
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Thought for Today
"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
~~~~~ Thomas A. Edison
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thought for Today
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
~~~~~ Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
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