His Thoughts Quotes
187 His Thoughts quotes by 146 unique authors
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Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
— George Santayana
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs.…
— Garth Stein
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it…
— Thomas Hood
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No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that,…
— Saint Basil
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No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of…
— Charles Henry Mackintosh
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The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he…
— Wilferd Peterson
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And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he…
— Lakshmi Pratury
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
— Napoleon Hill
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
— H P Lovecraft
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
— Gustav Mahler
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
— Thomas Mann
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
— Bertrand Russell
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of…
— Henry Norris Russell
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
— Jose Saramago
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
— Alan K. Simpson
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
— Jonathan Swift
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