5 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Thinking

Matthew Arnold quotes on thinking

21. How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again - thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!

27. The kings of modern thought are dumb.

32. It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

79. Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.

106. The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.