Thought Quotes

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

Wilson Mizner

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Ray Bradbury

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

E. M. Cioran

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

Bryan Adams

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Don Marquis

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

Albert Einstein

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

George Orwell

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

Leo Tolstoy

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Robert Henri

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Albert Einstein

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Man is what he believes.

Anton Chekhov

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Albert Camus

I used to be a waiter, but I was fired for clearing tables. Iwas clearing them for take off. I had them all lined upoutside. People thought it was an outdoor cafe. I said, No,these are leaving at 3. They were going to fire me anyway,because I told them I thought they should put the wrapper on theinside of the straw since that's the part you don't want to getdirty.

Steven Wright

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

George Orwell

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

George Santayana

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Huang Po