Quotes about Thoughts

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world: but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.

Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

When an artist runs out of inspiration or a scholar wearies of books, they always have the ability to live. Character is more important than intellect. Life is primary; our thoughts about it are secondary.

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." God's thoughts are indeed higher than ours, but when he reduces his thoughts into words and reveals them in Scripture, he expects us to study them, meditate on them, and understand them—again, not exhaustively, but accurately.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts." —George Müller

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." —D. A. Carson

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." —A. W. Tozer