Thoughts Quotes

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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there… — William Godwin
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas… — Margaret Fuller
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
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another… — William Safire
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. — Elias Canetti
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing… — Lewis Thomas
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went… — Mary McCarthy
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. — Isaac Barrow
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who… — Eda LeShan
Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong… — Gregg Easterbrook
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water… — Natalie Goldberg
Beware thoughts that come in the night. — William Least Heat-Moon
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot… — John Churton Collins
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner… — Van Wyck Brooks
It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his… — Pindar
It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce… — Eustace Budgell
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink)… — Alan Bennett
A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams. — Wang Wei
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head. — Laura Marling
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts… — Ted Nelson

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