191 Quotes on Thoughts

• Life is a journey not a destination, cherish each moment along the way.

  Author: Lisa Smith

• In the dim moonlight, our thoughts shine the brightest.

  Author: Luna Lightbloom

• A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

  Author: Fuzzy Zoeller

• Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

  Author: Loretta Young

• I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

  Author: Andrew Young

• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

  Author: Steven Wright

• The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

  Author: Frederick Wiseman

• Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

  Author: John Wilkins

• I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

  Author: William Wiley

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  Author: Walt Whitman

• Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

  Author: Horace Walpole

• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Author: Voltaire

• One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

  Author: Voltaire

• The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

  Author: A. Vogt

• Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

  Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

• A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

  Author: Paul Valery

• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  Author: Mark Twain

• To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

  Author: William Trogdon

• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

  Author: William Thackeray

• Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Author: Johannes Tauler

• Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

  Author: Swami Sivananda

• An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

  Author: Alan Simpson

• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

  Author: Beverly Sills

• Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

  Author: William Shenstone

• Give thy thoughts no tongue.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Author: Rod Serling

• Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

  Author: David Seabury

• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  Author: Olive Schreiner

• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• 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

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

  Author: Jose Saramago

• 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

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

  Author: Bertrand Russell

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

  Author: Erno Rubik

• To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

  Author: Jean Rostand

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

  Author: Jean Rostand

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

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• 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

• Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

  Author: John Robinson

• 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

• The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

  Author: Charles Reznikoff

• 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

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

  Author: Joshua Reynolds

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

  Author: Jeremy Renner

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Peace Pilgrim

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

  Author: Peace Pilgrim

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

  Author: Alan Perlis

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

  Author: James Penney

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

  Author: Sean Penn

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

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

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

  Author: Paracelsus

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

  Author: Earl Nightingale

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Dave Mustaine

• 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

• New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

  Author: George Murray

• 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

• 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

• Beware thoughts that come in the night.

  Author: William Moon

• 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

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

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Henry Martyn

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

  Author: Bob Marley

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

  Author: Marcel Marceau

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

  Author: Mainbocher

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

  Author: Ramana Maharshi

• Think your own thoughts.

  Author: Lydia Lunch

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

  Author: James Lowell

• 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

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

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• 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

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

  Author: Antonie Leeuwenhoek

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

  Author: Stanislaw Lec

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

  Author: Walter Landor

• 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

• Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

  Author: Charles Lamb

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

  Author: Kristin Kreuk

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

  Author: Dean Koontz

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

  Author: Barbara Kingsolver

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

  Author: John Keynes

• 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

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

  Author: Leon Kass

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

  Author: Immanuel Kant

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Ben Jonson

• 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

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

  Author: Jasper Johns

• A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

  Author: St. Jerome

• 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

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

  Author: King Hussein I

• 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

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

  Author: Douglas Horton

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

  Author: Douglas Horton

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

  Author: Raymond Holliwell

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

  Author: Dee Hock

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

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

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

  Author: Aaron Hill

• 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

• Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

  Author: William Hazlitt

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

  Author: Jerry Harrison

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

  Author: Ayumi Hamasaki

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

  Author: Robert Hall

• 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

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

  Author: Lewis Grizzard

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• 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

• 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

• We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

  Author: J. Fulbright

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

  Author: Vito Fossella

• He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Author: John Fletcher

• 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

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

  Author: Esther Fein

• 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

• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

  Author: Euripides

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• There are thoughts we must not think.

  Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

• 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

• Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

  Author: John Dryden

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

  Author: James Douglas

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

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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

  Author: Joe Davis

• 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

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

  Author: Confucius

• 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

• 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

• Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

  Author: Luc Clapier

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

  Author: Raymond Chandler

• 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 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

• 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

• From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

  Author: Thomas Campion

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

  Author: Eileen Caddy

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Buddha

• 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

• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  Author: H. Brown, Jr.

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Dennis Bergkamp

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Isaac Barrow

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

  Author: Robert Barany

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

  Author: Francis Bacon

• 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

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

  Author: Craig Armstrong

• 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

• High thoughts must have high language.

  Author: Aristophanes

• There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

  Author: Hannah Arendt

• 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

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

  Author: James Allen

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

  Author: James Allen

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

  Author: James Allen

• First thoughts are not always the best.

  Author: Vittorio Alfieri

• 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

• True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

  Author: Theodor Adorno

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