Thoughts Quotes
5764 Thoughts quotes by 2727 unique authors
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Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the…
— James Allen
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It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear…
— Sam Harris
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Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not…
— A A Milne
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will…
— Alexandre Dumas
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As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them…
— Mark Helprin
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There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due…
— Bertrand Russell
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There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
— Henry Miller
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and…
— Arundhati Roy
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And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to…
— David O. McKay
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I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about…
— David Levithan
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It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which…
— John Steinbeck
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3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than…
— Albert Schweitzer
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As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
— Sharon Salzberg
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They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could…
— Joseph Conrad
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when…
— Louise Fitzhugh
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