Quotations about

Thoughts

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, “At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.”

—Sharon Salzberg

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

—Sara Teasdale

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

—Winston Churchill

Our best thoughts come from others.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

—Norman Vincent Peale

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

—Jef Mallett

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream—a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows—is essentially poetry.

—Michel Leiris

Our thoughts limit what we're capable of doing. There are external forces arrayed against us, but there are also internal forces that sabotage us before we even get started. Our mind is good at setting us up for failure and getting us to think small. But I have found that we will do for love that which we don't think is possible. So the question to ask ourselves is "What do I love?

—Julia Butterfly Hill

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

—James Joyce

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

—Horace Walpole

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

—Joshua Reynolds

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

—Albert Camus

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

—Unknown

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

—Anzia Yezierska