Quotes About Thoughts

A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man's (or woman's) thoughts and attitudes.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.