But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.
Robert Kennedy

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
William Osler

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard

One thought fills immensity.
William Blake

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
Dennis Miller

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
Blaise Pascal

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal

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

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen