Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
~By Theodore White ~
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
~By Denis Waitley ~
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
~By Dee Hock ~
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
~By Madame de Stael ~
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.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
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.
~By Peter Steele ~
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 ~
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
~By Maria Monk ~
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
~By Horace Walpole ~
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
~By Voltaire ~
Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
~By Mattie Stepanek ~
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
~By Robert Barany ~
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
~By James Allen ~
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
~By Sherwood Anderson ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.
~By Corey Haim ~
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
~By Carl Sagan ~
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
~By Confucius ~
I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.
~By Demi Moore ~
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 ~
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
~By Dave Eggers ~
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
~By Charles Darwin ~
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
~By John Henry Newman ~
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
~By Walt Whitman ~
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
~By Empedocles ~
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
~By Saint Augustine ~
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
~By Euclid ~
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The universe is one of God's thoughts.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
~By Philip Guston ~
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 ~
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
~By James Allen ~
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
~By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
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 ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
~By Sai Baba ~
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 ~
Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
~By Dick Armey ~
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
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 ~
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
~By Colley Cibber ~
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.
~By James Cash Penney ~
In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.
~By Erno Rubik ~
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
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 ~
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
~By Voltaire ~
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
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.
~By Jane Fonda ~
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.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
~By Nigel Farage ~
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
~By George Berkeley ~
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
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 ~
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
~By William Godwin ~
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.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
~By Richard Cowper ~
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
~By Edward Livingston ~
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
~By Zack Wamp ~
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
~By Mike Schmidt ~
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
~By Frederick Wiseman ~
Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Think your own thoughts.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
~By James Lane Allen ~
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
~By James Allen ~
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
~By Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ~
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
~By Susan Taylor ~
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
~By James Allen ~
Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.
~By Vito Fossella ~
With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.
~By Dave Mustaine ~
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
~By William Wiley ~
I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
~By Dave Heineman ~
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
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.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
~By Brad Bird ~
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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