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Thought engenders thought. Place one idea upon paper, another
will follow it, and still another, until you have written a
page. You cannot fathom your mind. It is a well of thought
which has no bottom. The more you draw from it, the more
clear and fruitful it will be. If you neglect to think
yourself, and use other people's thoughts, giving them
utterance only, you will never know what you are capable of.
At first your ideas may come out in lumps, homely and
shapeless; but no matter; time and perseverence will arrange
and polish them. Learn to think and you will learn to write;
the more you think, the better you will express your ideas.
G. A. Sala
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of
times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over
again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Goethe
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and
completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must
think clearly; to act nobly he must think nobly. Intellectual
force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be
proposed by every man as the principal end of his being.
Channing
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without
learning is perilous.
Confucius
Thoughts, even more than overt acts, reveal character.
W. S. Plumer
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts;
they are forever influencing the opinions and destinies of men.
Bovee
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write
down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for
are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because
they seldom return.
Bacon
He that will not reflect is a ruined man.
Old proverb
Knowledge is acquired by study and observation, but wisdom
cometh by opportunity of leisure; the ripest thought comes from
the mind which is not always on the stretch, but fed, at times,
by a wise passiveness.
W. Mathews
There is one art of which every man should be a master -- the
art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what
purpose are you a man at all?
Coleridge
Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart.
Hood
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