Thought Quotes
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If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.
Michael Ashcroft
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One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
Michael Kinsley
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“Our invisible enemy plants a sinful thought in the soul of a person, and then records it as if it were the person’s own thought, so that later he can accuse the person at the terrible judgement of God.”
Ambrose of Optina
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When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.
Albert Einstein
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To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
Mircea Eliade
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The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.
Ajahn Amaro
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I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
Danny Burstein
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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
Alex Shakar
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I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.
Ravi Shankar
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
William Butler Yeats
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“Uh-oh," thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. "This person wants to kill me."
Cressida Cowell
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Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.
Karin Tidbeck
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A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
Alan Sokal
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I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.
Rasmus Lerdorf
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The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
Steven Millhauser
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I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Richard Serra
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
George Eliot
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I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'
Cate Blanchett
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You are constantly surprising me. I have to remind myself that whatever it is you are planning, it is going to be thought through more thoroughly than anything I have ever contemplated.
Courtney Milan
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I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.
Adele Parks
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The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.
Conn Iggulden
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
George Bernard Shaw