Thought Quotes
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I had always thought myself to be a man of moderate passions indistinguishable in that respect from most Englishmen born to our logical and mannered times.
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I always try to visualize the task at hand and the outcome through positive thought.
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Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.
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No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.
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Riches begin in the form of thought.
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O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
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We thought we'd have to look for survivors.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.
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Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
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If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.
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Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
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A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
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The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.
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Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.
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I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
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Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.
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I never started doing the videos because I thought they were going to get millions of views. I started doing them because I was at home, and I was bored.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.
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Sometimes something you thought wouldn't really be as big as it was blows up into something else.
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
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Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
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The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
