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Quotes About Thoughts

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
~ Terry Pratchett
We are all the product of our thoughts and our feelings, and the circumstances in which destiny unfolds arise because we have called them forth according to our view of the world.
~ Théun Mares
Internal dialogue is the sum total of all mental and emotional activity directed at maintaining our view of the world.
~ Théun Mares
Does anyone else overthink tweets or is it just me?
~ The Blonde Jon
All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~ The Dhammapada
Reading by itself is certainly not sufficient to breed wistfulness; a natural-born peculiarity of wisdom ought to exist in one's very brain cells, and reflected on his very deep beliefs and thoughts..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
I made it a point to think of them to keep them alive in my heart.
~ Thea Halo
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
the state looms large in all our lives, not only in its intrusions but in our thoughts: for so thoroughly have we drunk at the wells of collectivism that we see the state always as the solution to any problem, never as an obstacle to be overcome. One can gauge how completely collectivism has entered our soul – so that we are now a people of the government, for the government, by the government – by a strange but characteristic British locution.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
~ Theodore Harold White
Die verborgenen Gedanken in den Köpfen der Anderen sind das große Dunkel, das uns umgibt.
~ Theodore Zeldin
Life is a mind's attempt to win over other minds as along as it thinks the other minds are different from it.
~ Thiruman Archunan
We control the content of our dreams.
~ Thom Gunn
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused/confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.
~ Thom Gunn
Atajar al principio el mal procura; si llega a echar raíz, tarde se cura (1): Porque primeramente se ofrece al alma el pensamiento sencillo; después, la importuna imaginación; luego, la delectación y el torpe movimiento y el. Consentimiento. Y así se entra poco a poco el maligno enemigo, y se apodera de todo, por no resistirle al principio.
~ Thomas a Kempis
We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits by variety of thoughts. And we very willingly talk and think of those things which we love or desire, or else of those which we most dislike.
~ Thomas a Kempis
And without doubt it is better for thee and for all My other servants, that ye should be proved by adversities, than that ye should have all things as ye would. I know thy hidden thoughts: and that it is very needful for thy soul's health that sometimes thou be left without relish, lest perchance thou be lifted up by prosperity, and desirous to please thyself in that which thou art not.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Thou thinkest as man. In many things thou judgest as human affection persuadeth thee.
~ Thomas a Kempis
human behaviour lie not only in the past but in man's ability to contemplate the future, or estimate probabilities:
~ Thomas A. Harris
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
~ Thomas Aquinas
How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
~ Thomas Aquinas
Hence it is written (Wis. 9:14): "The thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain." Thus man needs to be guarded by the angels. Reply
~ Thomas Aquinas