Quotes About Thoughts

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

In shallow men the fish of small thoughts cause much commotion, in magnanimous oceanic minds the whales of inspiration cause hardly a ruffle" (Mao Tse-tung).

Ultimately, nothing in this life is "commonplace," nothing is "in between." The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.

Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

trying to remember was like trying to catch the rain with her fingers.

The dung made him think of his lord father.

Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

But thoughts which have stirred our hearts too deeply are always in some way troubled and confused.

He felt more cheerful, revived by the journey, released from himself and his poor life, uplifted by thoughts of the infinite.

Meditate. Your heart and lymph vessels are constantly responding to your thoughts and emotions. Meditation is the process of training the mind to become

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced to muttering my thoughts aloud like a madwoman when the need for a human voice becomes too strong.

A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.

He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.