Quotes About Thoughts

Our actions can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thoughts can be no wiser than our understanding.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. —WORDSWORTH.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.

When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts: the same words, the same scenes are revolved over and over again, the same mood accompanies them—the end of the year finds them as much what they were at the beginning as if they were machines set to a recurrent series of movements.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains.

These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our

There's a thing I've got i' my head, said Mr. Tulliver at last, in rather a lower tone than usual, as he turned his head and looked steadfastly at his companion.

Slander may be defeated by equanimity; but courageous thoughts will not pay your baker's hill, and fortitude is nowhere considered legal tender for beef.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit

She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

How do we handle feelings? What significance should we attach to them? If we want to keep our feelings from deceiving and defeating us, we must make some tough choices in our lives. We must trust God to keep our feelings under His control. We must make a choice to rejoice, and we must do it constantly. Feelings go where our thoughts and choices take them. So we can have confidence that God will use our choice and release to us the feelings that we need.

It's all in the mind."

What is meaningful are not the words, the mere sound sequences spoken or letter sequences on a page, but the conceptual content that the words evoke. Meanings are thus in people's minds, not in the words on the page.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?