<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Thought - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65915]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning without thought is labor lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59229]]></link><description><![CDATA[All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59226]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arouse the mind without resting it on anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thought fills immensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thought fills immensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216]]></link><description><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59217]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,   And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought once awakened does not again slumber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought once awakened does not again slumber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thought is often the best.   - Bishop Joseph Butler,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud  Of thoughts which were not their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud  Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59203]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote,  Still, still pursues, where'er I be,   The blight of life--the demon Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow a thought and reap an act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never express yourself more clearly than you think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never express yourself more clearly than you think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59190]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59192]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kings of modern thought are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kings of modern thought are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is what he thinks about all day long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is what he thinks about all day long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59186</guid></item></channel></rss>