Thoughts Quotes

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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates… — Miguel de Cervantes
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times. — Miguel de Cervantes
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. — Miguel de Cervantes
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing… — Miguel de Cervantes
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers… — Henry David Thoreau
He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I… — William T. Wiley
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. — Cesare Pavese
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any… — Galileo Galilei
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace. — Henepola Gunaratana
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain… — Henepola Gunaratana
People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes. — Bruce H. Lipton
Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve helped shape their… — Bristol Palin
All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts. — Wallace D. Wattles
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare

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