Thought Quotes - page 8

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. (Sylvia Plath)
I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat. View quote
Truman Capote
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. View quote
William O. Douglas
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. View quote
Tiberius
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; "I am rising to a man's work.”. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup.”. View quote
Louis C.K.
I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. View quote
Richard Wagner
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. (Thomas Carlyle)
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. View quote
Bruce Lee
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. View quote
Robert Frost
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. View quote
Robert Frost
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. View quote
Michael Crichton
I always thought I should be treated like a star. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought. View quote
James Mirrlees
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. (John Cage)
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. View quote
Garrison Keillor
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. View quote
Epictetus
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. View quote
G. K. Chesterton