Quotes with thought

Quotes 441 till 460 of 825.

  • Carl Van Doren Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
    The Roving Critic (1923)
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • A. A. Milne Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • William Shakespeare Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry van Dyke No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Arthur Erickson No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Abel Stevens No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Annie Leibovitz No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • William Hazlitt No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Boethius Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Thales of Miletus Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Dedman Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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