Top 90 Express Thoughts Quotes
#1. It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day, this is the work of genius.
John Lancaster Spalding
#2. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
#3. R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.
John Stoker
#4. Consciousness is basic while thoughts are supreme. Speeches are nothing but the expression of thoughts and feelings. If there is no consciousness, nothing else could be there. At the same time, all forms of consciousness will not give the abilities to think and express thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#5. As a bird has the right to sing, so shall every human being have the right to think and express thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.
Soseki Natsume
#7. [Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
Milovan Djilas
#8. If you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take - if you thought at all? Of course you thought - she had never had any difficulty with accepting that - but how limited would your thoughts be in the absence of any words to express them?
Alexander McCall Smith
#9. All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.
Henri Poincare
#10. For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out ...
Marilyn Manson
#11. Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.
George Orwell
#12. Sometimes the best way to express what we feel is to put our thoughts down on paper.
Glenn Beck
#13. Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
Vincent Van Gogh
#14. For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.
George S. Patton
#15. In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
Laura Esquivel
#16. We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.
Yoko Ono
#17. The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
Marcel Duchamp
#18. Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.
Edouard Vuillard
#19. People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
Alfred Hitchcock
#20. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.
Mary McGrory
#21. The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts of another.
Tedd Tripp
#22. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
Nhat Hanh
#23. According to Charles Olsen, the best poetry is a kind of schizophrenia. The poem does not "express" the poet's thoughts or feelings. It is "a transfer of energy between the poet and the reader".
Chris Kraus
#24. When we talk, we express our preconceived thoughts, when we listen, we learn and give birth to new thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#25. The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
Vladimir Nabokov
#26. As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.
Colin Egglesfield
#27. Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand Russell
#28. The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own
Erich Fromm
#29. In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Words cannot express love. Only thoughts of love born in silence can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Beautiful are the words, that can express the innermost thoughts.
Alok Jagawat
#32. We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right.
William Randolph Hearst
#33. Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.
Debasish Mridha
#34. respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing.
Avis J. Williams
#35. Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#36. This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected to tell the truth, to express your thoughts and your feelings, and then other times what was wanted was a lie, a bit of disguise.
Gary L. Blackwood
#37. I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#38. Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
Mark B. Cohen
#39. We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.
Jason Mraz
#40. Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#42. It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic
#43. With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.
Adora Svitak
#44. A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Every one of our thoughts needs freedom and space in order to bloom and express beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#46. The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Gustav Mahler
#47. Writing help us to express our thoughts, to share experiences, to think, to love, to inspire, to motivate, to challenge, to liberate, to learn, to hope, to smile and to wonder.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. She still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.
Leo Tolstoy
#49. Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
Bradley Joseph
#50. To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
John Donne
#51. Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
John Wesley Powell
#52. Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.
Don Watson
#53. Do I express my thoughts lucidly?
I think I do.
What is my life? An absurdity.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#54. It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
Isaac Barrow
#55. Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.
J. Patrick Lewis
#56. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#57. Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.
Anne McCaffrey
#58. Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.
John Dryden
#59. The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
Damon Lindelof
#60. The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality.
Erich Fromm
#61. Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
Norman Vincent Peale
#62. The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
Friedrich St. Florian
#63. A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.
Geraldine Brooks
#64. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#65. It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.
Shirley Manson
#66. Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Tryon Edwards
#67. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.
Virginia Woolf
#68. Our most important problem is that we can talk to express our thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#70. My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
Vladimir Nabokov
#71. The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
Criss Jami
#72. Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.
Kathy Acker
#73. I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.
Stanislas Dehaene
#74. The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.
Rudy Giuliani
#75. I could feel a million reasons, but there were no words to express them.
Jerry Spinelli
#76. Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
Charlotte Bronte
#77. The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.
Thomas Hardy
#78. Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts
Sharon M. Draper
#80. He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William Golding
#81. Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.
Marc Hauser
#82. I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate - I never thought I would be able to express publicly.
David Toop
#83. Words matter. Words make ideas. They preserve truths and history. They express freedom and they shape it. Words mold our thoughts. That gives them value and power.
Gregory Scott Katsoulis
#84. I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.
Donella Meadows
#85. The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you with how best to express your ideas so that it is as clear as possible to the performer.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#86. When one ... consciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love.
Spencer W. Kimball
#87. Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.
Henning Mankell
#88. I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.
Mattie Stepanek
#90. The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.
Marianne Williamson
