"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

Thought, Thinking, Word, Reality, Truth

8

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."

Exlpore more Thought quotes

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

Thought, Writing

"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

Thought, Belief, Humanity, Martyrs

"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

Thought, People, Comedy, Play

"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

Thought, Action, Thoughts, Results

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

Thought,

"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."

Johann Most, German Revolutionary

Thought, Hope, Communism, Country

"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Thought, Imagery, Desire, Goal

"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."

Richard Pryor, American Actor

Thought, Being, Want

"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."

Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican Actor

Thought, Act, End, Profession

Explore more quotes by Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."

Psychology, Mind, Light, Prejudice, Ignorance

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

Society, Respect, Equality, Passion, Envy

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."

Direction, World, Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

Experience, Mind, Old, Oliver Holmes

"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Faith, God, Act, Man

"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."

Learning, Mind, Idea, Growth, Change

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Truth, Strength, Resilience, Reality

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

Creativity, Ideas, Mind, Writer

"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."

Effort, Writer, Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."

Leadership, Reward, Honor, Strength