Thought Quotes

Hope is a rainbow of thought.

~ Harley King

There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retain only pure gems.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

~ Cat Clarke

Rayna found a makeover show on TV-one of those where they sneak up on unsuspecting people going about their business, accost them with camera, and tell them they look like crap in front of a zillion people, making them cry, then build them back up with a new makeup job they won't be able to replicate and outfits so intricate they'll never remember how to fit them together. It was perfect.

~ Hilary Duff

but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

~ Kristin Hannah

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

~ Raheel Farooq

With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and ridicule, but as soon as I yielded to low passions I was praised and encouraged.

~ Leo Tolstoy

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, created of warm blood and nerves as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

~ Raymond Carver

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about

~ Rex Stout

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.

~ Stig Åvall Severinsen

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

~ Yanni

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

~ David Consuegra

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.

~ Taiye Selasi

It's not the content, but the form of thought that counts.

~ Orhan Pamuk

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

~ John Dewey

question is the beginning of thought

~ Felix S. Cohen

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.

~ Bertrand Russell

By realizing the spiritual power of Thought, versus getting into the content of thought, you will make your reality a mentally healthier one

~ Elsie Spittle

Always wash you feet last.

~ James Cardenas

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

~ Donato Dicristino

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

~ Bryan Lee O'malley

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.

~ Victor Hugo

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

~ Kathryn Worth

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

~ Gangaji

Thought is more dangerous than you think.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.

~ John Steinbeck

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

~ Raheel Farooq

A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.

~ John Barnese

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.

~ Steven Redhead

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

~ Ezra Pound

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

~ Charles Darwin

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

~ U.g. Krishnamurti

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

~ Neal Stephenson

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

~ Herbert V. Prochnow

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact.

~ George Orwell

Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

~ Sri Chinmoy