Dream, Dream, Dream, Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore should be secured, because they seldom return again.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.[Man könnte Gedanken Preise anheften. Manche kosten viel, manche wenig. Und womit zahlt man für Gedanken? Ich glaube: mit Mut.]
Yet I doubt not thro’ the ages one increasing purpose runs, and the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
