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The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. - August Wilhelm von Schlegel There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. - Arthur Schopenhauer We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others; the latter are the rule, the former the exception. Only the light which we have kindled in ourselves can illuminate others. - Arthur Schopenhauer Still are the thoughts to memory dear. - Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto I, st. 33) Ah! as you say, we should slip over many thoughts and act as though we die not perceive them. [Fr., Ah! comme vous dites, il faut glisser sur bien des pensees, et ne faire pas semblant de les voir.] - Marquise de Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Lettres (70) It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self-examiner. - Lord Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper) A woman's thought runs before her actions. - William Shakespeare Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought. - William Shakespeare From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! - William Shakespeare I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. - William Shakespeare In the quick forge and working house of thought. - William Shakespeare Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. - William Shakespeare Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts. - William Shakespeare Sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts. - William Shakespeare Thought is free. - William Shakespeare Thought is the slave of life, and life time's fool; and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop. - William Shakespeare Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. - William Shakespeare Thoughts are winged. - William Shakespeare My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Talbot at I, v) But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens! - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Chorus at V, chorus) But lest you should not understand me well-- And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought-- I would detain you here some month or two Before you venture for me. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Portia at III, ii) A thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (act II, sc. 3) Come near me! I do weave A chain I cannot break--I am possest With thoughts too swift and strong for one lone human breast. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam (canto IX, st. 33) Strange thoughts beget strange deeds. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (act IV, sc. 4) Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. - William Shenstone, Detached Thoughts on Men and Manners Displaying page 11 of 14 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14
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