A Quote by Joseph Butler

The first thought is often the best.

Joseph Butler

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Joseph Butler
English - Priest
May 18, 1692 - June 16, 1752

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Joseph Butler

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

Karin Tidbeck

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.

K. M. Soehnlein

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

Soren Kierkegaard

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Arca

Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'

David Berman

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'

Nick Denton

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

John Bunyan

When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.

Michael Faraday

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

Gisele Bundchen

First thought, best thought.

Allen Ginsberg

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Grant Morrison

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

Carine Roitfeld

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Arca

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.