Thoughts - Quotes

Man being made a reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being, than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects. - William Penn

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:- for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. - James Allen

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression. - James Russell Lowell

Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts. - Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. - Fran Lebowitz

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you. - Blaise Pascal

Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. - Orison Swett Marden

Our thoughts at least are ours. - William Wordsworth

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. - Lawrence J. Peter

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. - Thomas Jefferson

The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts. - Charles Darwin

The man who gives me a new thought enriches me. - Reuen Thomas

The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought. - Gautama Buddha

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. - Buddha

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. - Ivan Panin

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. - James Allen