Thought Quotes

If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.

Ambrose Bierce

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

George Barzan

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Mark Twain

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Mark Twain

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Kahlil Gibran

Thought is made in the mouth.

Tristan Tzara

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Allen, source: http://www.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Elizabeth Janeway

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.

Vic Braden

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

David Hare

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.

Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Blaise Pascal

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Blaise Pascal

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Blaise Pascal

The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Joseph Edward Murphy

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato