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Quotes About Thoughts

She felt depressed and uncertain, not yet ready to be alone with her new and fragile thoughts.
~ Nicola Griffith
Silence while we both thought our thoughts.
~ Nicola Griffith
She would be glad not to attend Edwin. She had her father's hair, more so every day. When her uncle was thinking of power and dynasty, it was best not to come to his attention. And she had a lot to think about.
~ Nicola Griffith
Hild wasn't listening. He wondered what paths she walked in her head.
~ Nicola Griffith
There was something about alliances she could not quite see, but the more she thought about it the less clear it became, so she set it aside for later.
~ Nicola Griffith
Her thoughts came together, smooth as a shield wall: The fact they could check the prophecy they must believe.
~ Nicola Griffith
She had no idea what path her mother's thoughts might be taking.
~ Nicola Griffith
To Marghe, unused to so much ale, it seemed that Uaithne's lair flamed with violent thoughts.
~ Nicola Griffith
Hild looked deeper, letting her mind sink into the glimmer and shadow, as she might in the world, looking at the leaves, or lying on her back watching the clouds, letting the thoughts come, letting the things she already knew arrange themselves in a pattern, a story that other might call a prophecy.
~ Nicola Griffith
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Il est certains esprits dont les sombres pensées Sont d'un nuage épais toujours embarrassées ; Le jour de la raison ne le saurait percer. Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser. Selon que notre idée est plus ou moins obscure, L'expression la suit, ou moins nette, ou plus pure. Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Therefore I say unto you, after God, to woman must belong your best thoughts, for she is the divine temple where you will most easily obtain perfect happiness.
~ Unknown
I was fifteen and with every ounce of my strength I was leaning into my thoughts to make them slant reality toward the light.
~ Unknown
Oh long-drawn highway, how excellent you are! How often have I in weariness and despondency set forth upon your length, and found in you salvation and rest! How often, as I followed your leading, have I been visited with wonderful thoughts and poetic dreams and curious, wild impressions!
~ Nikolai Gogol
P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.
~ Nikolai Gogol
In effetti la pietà non ci assale mai così violentemente come alla vista della bellezza toccata dal soffio corruttore del vizio. Ancora ancora gli si accompagnasse la deformità, la bellezza, la tenera bellezza... nei nostri pensieri si unisce soltanto all'innocenza e alla purezza.
~ Nikolai Gogol
There is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
We are all victims of our brains. They tell us to do things and we do them. They tell us to believe things and we believe them. They hide our blind spots from us. All the while we believe we are making choices.
~ Noah Hawley
Afformations are empowering questions that immediately change your subconscious thought patterns from negative to positive.
~ Unknown
Only your doubt and disbelief can interrupt the flow of His blessings. Your attitude, your confessions, and your thoughts all play a vital part in opening and closing the floodgates of His blessing on your life.
~ Unknown
It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer, something quite out of the ordinary about her mind. Most people had minds which dealt with one thought, and then another, one at a time. Hers very often dealt with two, even three, all at the same time." Damask Greenway from Afternoon of an Autocrat
~ Unknown