Showing posts with label : thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label : thought. Show all posts

January 18, 2007

It is the mark of an educated mind...



It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

--Aristotle

It was my Uncle George who discovered...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a good well in advance of modern medical thought.

--P. G. Wodehouse

I have always thought the actions...



I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

--John Locke

From the moment of birth we are...



From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

--A. N. Whitehead

Be great in act...



Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

--William Shakespeare

Action is coarsened thought...



Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

--Henri Frederic Amiel