Thomas Traherne: Quotes about thinking

Thomas Traherne was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
Thomas Traherne: 32   quotes 2   likes

“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

Thomas Traherne

First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations

Thinking

“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom.”

Thomas Traherne

Fourth Century, sect. 20.
Centuries of Meditations

Wisdom , World , Thinking

“At present I'm re-reading Traherne's Centuries of Meditations which I think almost the most beautiful book (in prose, I mean, excluding poets) in English.”

Thomas Traherne

C. S. Lewis, letter to Arthur Greeves in December 1941. http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=978
Criticism

Books , Beauty , Thinking , Reading