Thoughts Quotes

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

Deep, Lie, Give

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly

Person, Lazy, Friends

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin

God, Blessings, Expect

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
James Allen

Life, Him, Find

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Truth, Someone

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

Down, Moment, Write

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

Good, Bad, Bear

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

Today, Tomorrow, Brought

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.
Samuel Butler

Spring, Lives, Less

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

Mind, Direction, Moves

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome

Fat, Fine, Stomach

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson

Music, Happiness, Alone

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

Energy, Heaven, Create

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.
Thomas Fuller

Nothing, Others, Memory

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson

God, Important, Made

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
William Shatner

Life, Marriage, Treat

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

Motives, Unaware

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden

Anger, Mind, Long

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
James Allen

Life, Fail, Result

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

Second, Wisest, Among

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

Mind, Anywhere, Dwell

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

May, Enjoy, Dark

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom

Fear, Around, Worry

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

Write, Within, Takes

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France

Men, Mind, Above

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck

Alone, Live, Mind

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.
Bo Bennett

Human, Thinking, May

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

Good, Thinking, Enough

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

Down, Plagiarism, Steal

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt

Thinking, Dangerous

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