Quotes About Thoughts

The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

It is the design of Scripture that God should be at the center of our thoughts and dreams.

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

I know that ghosts and demons did exist, they did, if only you thought about them long enough and hard enough.

Carlos Marcello and the war orphans did cross my mind during the drive, and I sat the whole way facing the driver. He was a little guy, and if he took his hand off the steering wheel I was going to take his head off for him.

There is no standard by which time can be measured, but the succession of our thoughts, and the changes that take place in the external world.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.

Theology is for everyone. Indeed, everyone needs to be a theologian. In reality, everyone is a theologian—of one sort or another. And therein lies the problem. There is nothing wrong with being an amateur theologian or a professional theologian, but there is everything wrong about being an ignorant or a sloppy theologian. Therefore, every Christian should read theology. Theology simply means thinking about God and expressing those thoughts in some way.

Although some we rarely see, the thought of them is comforting, like the pleasure of knowing there is a mooring somewhere, if occasionally we want to sail into port.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Why would anyone write a poem in this wrecked world? And really, how could they? Massive doubt, failed love, shitty thoughts, empty spirit, a dead history compelling a transfixed vision, these are devastations that might overwhelm and silence anyone; and silence, for a poet, is a prison. It's where the descent hits bottom, it's where the poet either faces or does not face all the risks of failed comprehension.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Death lasts only a moment, but you think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, Mais on y pense chaque instant)

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.

Out of my thoughts!You are part of my existence,part of myself,you have been in every line I have ever read.

Having made this lunatic confession, I began to throw my torn-up grass into the river, as if I had some thoughts of following it.

My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.