Thought Quotes - Page 2

Continuously rambling thoughts disrupt the potential for positive thinking.

What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.

The seeds of happiness can grow from one thought, one idea, one simple change in focus.

Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

Gangaji

Thought is more dangerous than you think.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.

John Steinbeck

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

Raheel Farooq

A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.

John Barnese

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.

Steven Redhead

With you, I know that what a the future.

Achda Dona musthofa

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Ezra Pound

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

Charles Darwin

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

U.G. Krishnamurti

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

Neal Stephenson

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Vladimir Nabokov

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Herbert V. Prochnow

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact.

George Orwell

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

Ogwo David Emenike

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

Sri Chinmoy

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

Sri Chinmoy

Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.

Douglas Woolf

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

Norman Corwin

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

Raymond Carver

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe

Brian Greene

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about

Rex Stout

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.

Stig Åvall Severinsen

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Yanni

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

David Consuegra

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

Taiye Selasi

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

Orhan Pamuk

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

John Dewey

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

question is the beginning of thought

Felix S. Cohen

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.

Bertrand Russell

By realizing the spiritual power of Thought, versus getting into the content of thought, you will make your reality a mentally healthier one

Elsie Spittle

Always wash you feet last.

James Cardenas

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

Donato DiCristino

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.

Victor Hugo

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

Jorge Luis Borges

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

Kathryn Worth

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

Max Stirner

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

Christian D. Larson

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

Jayme K.

There was no style in nature.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Edward Teller

We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How far into darkness, into shadow, must one crawl not to see? And how can the blind walk out?" - C.V. Dreesman, The Marksmith

C.V. Dreesman

Knowledge is power, I said at last. "Let's do it.

Karen Lord

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Do not let any question goes out of your mind without doing something about it.

Hamzat haruna Ribah

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

David Lipsky

Hope is a rainbow of thought.

Harley King

There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

Cat Clarke

Rayna found a makeover show on TV-one of those where they sneak up on unsuspecting people going about their business, accost them with camera, and tell them they look like crap in front of a zillion people, making them cry, then build them back up with a new makeup job they won't be able to replicate and outfits so intricate they'll never remember how to fit them together. It was perfect.

Hilary Duff

but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

Kristin Hannah

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

Raheel Farooq

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