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Thoughts Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,…
- The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of…
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young…
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
- There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think…
- I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place…
- It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of…
- If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
- Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. — Sai Baba
- Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. — Francis Bacon
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most… — Philip James Bailey
- I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks