Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

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.
John Keats

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Soren Kierkegaard

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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
Albert Ellis

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
Robert Collier

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.
Charles R. Swindoll

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