Own Thoughts Quotes

181 Own Thoughts quotes by 153 unique authors

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. — Nikki Giovanni
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine… — Wendell Berry
She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually… — Jane Austen
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own… — H.G. Wells
A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own… — Linda Howard
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet… — Washington Irving
Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts — Earl Nightingale
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged… — Ivo Andric
When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page.… — Cesare Pavese
What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going… — Emma Forrest
We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either… — H. L. Mencken
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at the blue sky… — Wallace Stevens
He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you… — Unknown Author
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging… — Alan Kay
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other.… — Jules Verne
John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards,… — Bobby Keys
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not… — Bo Bennett
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. — James Lane Allen
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature,… — William Hazlitt
If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts — Frank Herbert
I think Micheal Jackson was a Great Man! The guy wrote his own music from his own thoughts, with his own words, he sang it,… — Glen Rambharack
The one thing you shouldn't be left alone with at night, is your own thoughts. They eat you alive until the next morning — Ritu Ghatourey

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