A Thought Quotes

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.