Quotes About Thoughts

It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

There's nothing man ever dreams of that God hasn't already thought of!

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.