Thoughts Quotes

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot

Men, Words, Opinion

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.
Peace Pilgrim

Eat, Junk, Foods

High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts

Positive, Yourself, Others

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
Larry Miller

Women, Thinking, Between

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

Wanted, Once, Knew

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

Words, Order, Conceal

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.
Loretta Young

Eyes, Voice, Hands

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
Kristen Stewart

Long, Find, Enough

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael

Art, Among, Choosing

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
Dee Dee Myers

Work, Powerful, Before

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers

Profound, Clearness, Ornaments

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.
Kirsten Dunst

Yourself, Real, Self

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
William Whewell

Thought, Cannot, Reflection

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Francois Rabelais

Marriage, Judge, Everyone

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J. Michael Straczynski

Language, Quality, Sides

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
Robert Lanza

Experience, Mind, Themselves

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Ted Shawn

Spiritual, Words, Dance

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

Words, Around, Within

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

Blame, Light, Secret

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Benjamin Carson

Marriage, Woman, Between

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid

Nature, God, Laws

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

Work, May, Away

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

Together, Company, Bring

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
Katherine Heigl

Feelings, Everybody, Moments

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.
Frederick William Faber

Great, Thinking, Words

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
Mos Def

Life, Time, Experience

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.
Allen Ginsberg

Saying, Thinking, Through

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.
Phillips Brooks

Great, Sad, Thinking

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Jean Rostand

Reflect, Disturb

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