thought progression Quotes

What starts in clouded minds finishes in the rain

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.