Thought Quotes
I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
The betterment of society is not a job to be left to a few. It's a responsibility to be shared by all.
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.
True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
