Idea Book
Thought

Action limits us; whereas in the state of contemplation we are endlessly expansive  Henri Amiel

Thought is sad without action, and action is sad without thought  Henri Amiel

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice  John Stuart Mill

Thought is the seed of action  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct  Julian Huxley

Who reflects too much will accomplish little  Friedrich von Schiller

Think before you act  Pythagoras

Thought is behavior in reversal  Sigmund Freud

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world  Wendell Phillips

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.  There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.  Victor Hugo

Life consists of what a man is thinking of all day  Ralph Waldo Emerson

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts  Philip Sidney

Men suffer from thinking more than from anything else  Leo Tolstoy

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it  Henry Ford, Sr.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem  John Dewey

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts  William Hazlitt

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you  James Allen

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times  Oliver Wendell Holmes