“Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 799 of 4756
“Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.”
“Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.”
“The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.”
“There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.”
“You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.”
“I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.”
“He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.”
“Thought makes everything fit for use.”
“People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.”
“A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”
“When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.”
“Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.”
“The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.”
“Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.”
“I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.”
“Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.”
“Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?”
“For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.”
“Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.”