Thought Quotes

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

— S. T. Coleridge

Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man.

— Dugald Stewart

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

— Sir Philip Sidney

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— Henry Giles

We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.

— Thomas Adams

Be not troubled by the wanderings of your imagination which you cannot restrain. How often do we wander through the fear of wandering and the regret that we have done so. What would you say of a traveler who, instead of constantly advancing in his journey, should employ his time in anticipating the falls he might suffer, or in weeping over the place where one had happened?

— Fenelon