Thoughts quotes

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten? Sigmund Freud
(also about
Psychology, Mind)

Thoughts quotes by George Gordon Byron

Also about
Ideas, Attention
The power of thought, the magic of the mind. For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don't count on harvesting golden Delicious. Anonymous
(also about
Expectations)
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare
(also about
Words)
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin
(also about
Culture, Control, Morality, Self-control)
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell
(also about
Language)
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. Jane Fonda
(also about
Words, Self-control)

Thoughts quotes by Buddha

Also about
Inspiration, Wisdom, Personality, Buddhism
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead. Bob Marley
(also about
Philosophy)

Thoughts quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Also about
Beauty, Life, Evil, Ugliness, Virtue, Inspiration, Change, Responsibility
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. Simone de Beauvoir
(also about
Diary)
Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days; when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead.
Fields of craters within and without. Erich Maria Remarque
(also about
War)
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon
(also about
Inspiration, Ideas)
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf
(also about
Relationships, Eyes)
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine
(also about
Ideas)
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. Walter Savage Landor

Thoughts quotes by James Joyce

Also about
Character, Action, Inspiration
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most? Charles Lindbergh
(also about
Psychology, Words)

Thoughts quotes by Roald Dahl

Also about
Beauty, Face, Appearance, Kindness, Ugliness
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. Haruki Murakami
(also about
Age, Memories, Immortality)
A thought will color a world for us. Theodore Dreiser
Our heads are round so thought can change direction. Allen Ginsberg
(also about
Thinking)

Thoughts quotes by Franz Kafka

Also about
Happiness, Action, Dreams
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
One thought fills immensity. William Blake

Thoughts quotes by Thomas Mann

Also about
Change, World, Words, Emotions, Writing
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. John Steinbeck
(also about
Speech, Behaviour, Words)
To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts. John Donne
(also about
Feelings, Confusion)
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. Herman Melville
(also about
Books, Reading, Words)

Thoughts quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Also about
Rhetoric, Words, Imagination, Pleasure, Illusion, Dreams
The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect. Thought is the greatest of pleasures — pleasure itself is only imagination — have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Thoughts quotes by Honoré de Balzac

Also about
Humanity, Books, Culture, Victory
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed Charlotte Bronte
(also about
Hope, Secret, Heart, Dreams)