A Thought Quotes

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

As a man is, so he sees.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

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

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.