Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
~By Frances Burney ~
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
~By William James ~
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
~By Paul Valery ~
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
~By James Lane Allen ~
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~By Herman Hesse ~
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.
~By John Milton ~
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
~By Barbara Kingsolver ~
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
~By Helen Garner ~
To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
~By Ted Shawn ~
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
~By James Allen ~
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
~By David Brainerd ~
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
~By William Trogdon ~
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
~By John Dryden ~
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.
~By Robert Musil ~
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
~By Buddha ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
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.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
~By Joe Henderson ~
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
~By Thomas Gray ~
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~By Allan Bloom ~
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
~By Buddha ~
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
~By James Lane Allen ~
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
~By Peter Falk ~
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
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.
~By Larry Miller ~
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
~By Warren Ellis ~
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
~By Sidney Altman ~
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
~By William Shenstone ~
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
~By Sai Baba ~
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
~By Sharron Angle ~
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
~By James Earl Jones ~
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
~By Maurice Merleau-Ponty ~
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
~By Victor Hugo ~
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
~By Richard Russo ~
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
~By Marie Osmond ~
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
~By Robert Barany ~
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.
~By Jo Bonner ~
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
~By Voltaire ~
Our best thoughts come from others.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
~By Sai Baba ~
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.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
~By Beverly Sills ~
I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.
~By Dennis Brown ~
And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.
~By Nazim Hikmet ~
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
~By Marguerite Young ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
~By James Allen ~
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
~By Walker Evans ~
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
~By Horace Walpole ~
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
~By Plato ~
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
~By Ramana Maharshi ~
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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?
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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