Quotes
Quotes about Thought
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts....A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
If any man wishes to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
