Quotes about Thoughts
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We become what we think about all day long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words were something, and it was a lie from the enemy to say words were nothing. Words were something, because words led to actions. As a man thinks, so he is. As he speaks, so he becomes.
— Randy Ingermanson
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
— Hippocrates
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
— Napoleon Hill
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
— Samuel Johnson
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
— Joseph Addison
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
— John Owen
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo