Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.


Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1880)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered...

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered...

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered...

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered...