Thoughts Quotes

The universe is one of God's thoughts.
Friedrich Schiller

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
Peace Pilgrim

Peace, Judge, Thinking

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.
J. William Fulbright

Learn, Dare, Complex

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

Love, Romantic, True

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor Adorno

Alone, True, Understand

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.
Bill Watterson

Words, Why, Sometimes

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
William Shatner

Love, Characters, Meat

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman

Morning, Experience, Poetry

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus

God, Best, Evil

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

Words, Wild, Ought

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

Mind, Sometimes, Place

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharshi

Freedom, Spiritual, Single

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
Peter Steele

Thought, Try, Used

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

Great, May, Small

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan Bloom

Life, Great, Values

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Thomas S. Monson

Faith, Doubt, Stay

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
Jeff Bridges

Change, Different, Else

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry Pratchett

Mother, Parents, Lost

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

Difficult, While, Eating

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

Often, Second, Repent

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion, Feelings, Spirit

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott

Hard, Feelings, Find

Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers

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

Pictures, Room, Hung

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

Keep, Feet, Ground

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.
Eva Mendes

Mind, Care, Woman

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

Words, Gun, Heaven

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
John Dryden

Words, Pictures

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda

Words, Control, Cannot

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