Thought Quotes

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

~ Byron Katie

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

~ John F. Kennedy

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

~ C.s. Lewis

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

~ Philip K. Dick

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

~ Criss Jami

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

~ Anne Brontë

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Life is difficult.

~ M. Scott Peck

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

~ Leo Tolstoy

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

~ Alberto Caeiro

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.

~ Liz Armbruster

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented fish in its fish tank appears to have a small, boring existence to us, imagine a larger, more perceptive kingdom (even by scientific taxonomy) to whom our contented existences may appear to be small and boring. This is where true creativity and massive perceptive abilities spawn a sense of intellectual humility; the kind which God adores.

~ Criss Jami

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you.

~ Elizabeth George

Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

~ Vivian Amis

He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not those who watch you as you explore the dreams!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.

~ Suzy Kassem

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

~ Nirav Sanchaniya

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel

~ Jeremy Aldana

A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.

~ Toni Sorenson

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

~ Avis J. Williams

I used to think I was the strangest person in the worldbut then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I doI would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

~ Rebecca Katherine Martin

That thing you thought you'd doYou start to think you can't;You always say tomorrow,But you haven't got a plan.Everyone's asking questions,And all you do is dodge.That career that you'd imaginedWas only a mirage.The older that you get,The smaller that you feel;You forget what's only in your head,And what is really real.Sometimes people make it;They become who they meant to be.But most of the time,Dreamers only dream.

~ Margo T. Rose

It is thus that man, with fervent imagination, can endue the rough stone with loveliness, forge the mis-shapen metal into a likeness of all that wins our hearts by exceeding beauty, and breathe into a dissonant trump soul-melting harmonies. The mind of man—that mystery, which may lend arms against itself, teaching vain lessons of material philosophy, but which, in the very act, shows its power to play with all created things, adding the sweetness of its own essence to the sweetest, taking its ugliness from the deformed.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Cesto smo zaglavljeni izmedju onoga sto jesmo i onoga sto zelimo da budemo.

~ Tamara Stamenkovic

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

~ Sylvia Plath

What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

~ Aphole

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Thought before word, never word before thought.

~ Suzy Kassem

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.

~ Akash Lakhotia

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don't underestimate anyone, not even yourself.

~ Mohith Agadi

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

~ Amit Kalantri