Thoughts Quotes

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.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

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.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

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

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

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.

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

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

First thoughts are not always the best.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

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

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.