Quotes About Thoughts

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

Words are all we have.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.