Quotes About Thoughts

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?

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

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?

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is a great thought! And great thoughts belong to great men only!

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!