Quotes with thoughts

  • A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
  • A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
  • Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
  • And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
  • The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
  • 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.
  • Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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  • Marcus Aurelius A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
    Ta eis heauton V, 16
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Acharya Mahapragya Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
    Thought at Sunrise (2007)
    Acharya Mahapragya
     
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Conrad A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bill Watterson Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Vauvenargues Great thoughts always come from the heart.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Andrew Young I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • F. Faber Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind deeds.
    F. Faber
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our best thoughts come from others.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Barbara Howar There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
    Barbara Howar
     
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Swami Vivekananda We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
    Swami Vivekananda
    Hindu philosopher (1863 - 1902)
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  • Kahlil Gibran You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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