Quotes on Thoughts

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Author: Theodor Adorno

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

Author: Samuel Alexander

First thoughts are not always the best.

Author: Vittorio Alfieri

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Author: James Allen

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Author: James Allen

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Author: James Allen

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Author: Barbara Amiel

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Author: Hannah Arendt

High thoughts must have high language.

Author: Aristophanes

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Author: Dick Armey

Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

Author: Craig Armstrong

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Author: Sai Baba

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Author: Francis Bacon

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Author: Robert Barany

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

Author: Isaac Barrow

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Author: Bernard Barton

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

Author: William Bell

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

Author: Dennis Bergkamp

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Author: Nellie Bly

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

Author: Ed Bradley

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Author: Jean Bruyere

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Author: Buddha

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Author: Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Author: Buddha

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

Author: Frances Burney

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Author: John Burroughs

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Author: Samuel Butler

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Author: Eileen Caddy

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

Author: Thomas Campion

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Author: Albert Camus

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Author: Elias Canetti

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Author: Andrew Carnegie

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

Author: Raymond Chandler

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Author: Luc Clapier

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Author: Alan Cohen

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Author: Charles Colton

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Author: Confucius

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

Author: Joe Davis

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

Author: James Douglas

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Author: John Dryden

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

Author: Kirsten Dunst

There are thoughts we must not think.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Author: Warren Ellis

Our best thoughts come from others.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Author: Euripides

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Author: Frederick Faber

It may be a penny for your thoughts, but it is now a quarter for your voice.

Author: Esther Fein

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Author: Francois Fenelon

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Author: John Fletcher

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

Author: Vito Fossella

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

Author: J. Fulbright

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Author: James Fulbright

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Author: Thomas Fuller

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

Author: Helen Garner

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

Author: Allen Ginsberg

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Author: William Godwin

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Author: Jeff Goldblum

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Author: Lewis Grizzard

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

Author: Philip Guston

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Author: Robert Hall

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Author: Ayumi Hamasaki

I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

Author: Jerry Harrison

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Author: William Hazlitt

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Author: Hermann Hesse

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Author: Aaron Hill

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Author: Dee Hock

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

Author: Raymond Holliwell

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Author: Douglas Horton

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Author: Douglas Horton

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Author: Victor Hugo

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

Author: King Hussein I

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Author: Jean Ingelow

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Author: St. Jerome

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

Author: Jasper Johns

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.

Author: Darren Johnson

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

Author: Ben Jonson

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

Author: Nafisa Joseph

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

Author: Leon Jouhaux

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.

Author: Kato Kaelin

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Author: Immanuel Kant

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

Author: Leon Kass

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Author: John Keats

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

Author: John Keynes

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Author: Dean Koontz

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

Author: Kristin Kreuk

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

Author: Charles Lamb

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

Author: Norman Lamm

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Author: Walter Landor

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Author: Stanislaw Lec

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Author: Antonie Leeuwenhoek

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

Author: Carl Lewis

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

Author: Edward Livingston

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Author: James Lowell

Think your own thoughts.

Author: Lydia Lunch

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Author: Ramana Maharshi

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Author: Mainbocher

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Author: Marcel Marceau

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Author: Bob Marley

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Author: Henry Martyn

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Author: Abraham Maslow

When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.

Author: Scotty McCreery

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Author: Bryant McGill

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

Author: Peter McWilliams

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Author: Frank Miller

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

Author: William Moon

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

Author: Max Muller

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Author: Dinah Mulock

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

Author: George Murray

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

Author: Robert Musil

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

Author: Dave Mustaine

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

Author: Ted Nelson

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Author: John Newman

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

Author: Earl Nightingale

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Author: Paracelsus

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Author: Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Author: Blaise Pascal

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

Author: Sean Penn

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

Author: James Penney

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Author: Alan Perlis

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Author: Peace Pilgrim

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Author: Peace Pilgrim

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Author: Alexander Pope

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.

Author: Dennis Quaid

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

Author: Jeremy Renner

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Author: Joshua Reynolds

Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

Author: Mercer Reynolds

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

Author: Charles Reznikoff

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

Author: Boyd Rice

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

Author: John Robinson

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

Author: Joe Rogan

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

Author: Jim Rogers

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Author: Jean Rostand

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Author: Jean Rostand

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Author: Erno Rubik

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Author: Bertrand Russell

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

Author: Richard Russo

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Author: Jose Saramago

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer