Thought Quotes - page 10

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. (Clarice Lispector)

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?

John Templeton

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

Frances Burney

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Sai Baba of Shirdi

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

Dion Fortune

I am bound by my own definition of criticism a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Johan Huizinga

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Ernie Banks

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. (Oscar Wilde)

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Nhat Hanh

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

Fatos Nano

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

In indolent vacuity of thought.

William Cowper

Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.

Barry Goldwater

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

Art Buchwald

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

Douglas Coupland

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Philip James Bailey

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

William Shenstone

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.

Hilaire Belloc

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

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