“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“She had to figure out how to feel good about herself apart from what a man thought of her.” — Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Copy Share Image
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I've heard two ways of looking at it. One says the silent man is the wise man & the other that a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not… — H. L. Balcomb Copy Share Image
“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by… — Erich Sauer Copy Share Image
“He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“At Yale, when he was young and headstrong, he'd been sure that one day he'd be the very axis of the world,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Do you think that the man has any thought of mending his ways who counts over his vices as if they were… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I did, indeed, retain a cloudy reverence for a cosmic deity and a great historical interest in the Founder of Christianity. But… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“How many of us have gazed at a man and thought, ‘yes, him,’ only to have him pay his attentions to someone… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
“What this world needs more than almost anything else is independence of thought. The average man has no confidence in his own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh how lovely it is!’ she kept saying. Look what a moon! Oh, how lovely!…I feel like squatting down on my heels,… — Tolstoy Leo Copy Share Image
“A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Amazing what a man thought of, looking at a fully clothed woman who did nothing more provocative than sipping her tea while… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“I wish the boy was here,' he said aloud and settled himself against the rounded planks of the bow and felt the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Oh,” he said. “I see.” But he did not see, exactly, though he believed that he could have been wrong and that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Haven't you got it through your head that human thought is a thing of the past & that philosophy is worse than… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image