Thoughtful Mind Quotes

#1. A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other's eyes.

David Walker

#3. Norton was supremely gifted as an awakener, and no thoughtful mind can recall without a thrill the notes of the first voice which has called it out of its morning dream.

Edith Wharton

#4. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. the lonely mind wanders.
the happy mind goes.
the weary mind travels.
the thoughtful mind flows.

Barry DeCarli

#6. It's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

Samuel Beckett

#7. The Great Leveller, Dogman whispered to himself, since he was in a thoughtful frame of mind. That's what the hillmen call him. Death, that is. He levels all differences. Named Men and nobodies, south or north. He catches everyone in the end, and he treats each man the same.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I'm in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.

David Anthony Durham

#9. In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Johan Huizinga

#10. How could God design millions of new faces each day, keeping in mind the resemblance to the progenitor, who in turn was His genesis?

Shikha Kaul

#11. Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.

Stephen Richards

#13. Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#14. It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.

Matthew S. Williams

#15. To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#16. The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding

#17. When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

Immanuel Kant

#18. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

A.K. Kuykendall

#19. The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#21. Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Johannes Kepler

#22. Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.

Drew Myron

#23. Humanity without religion is equivalent to a slave without its chains. To end human fear is to end human faith. Beyond the dread of death humanity has no need for delusions of an afterlife. A single human mind void of religion can accomplish more than a thousand thoughtful of God.

C.J. Anderson

#24. To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.

John Dos Passos

#25. I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

Harrison Ford

#26. Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

Dave Willis

#27. Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.

Aisha Mirza

#28. I'd given up trying to explain Hobie to Boris: the house, the workshop, his thoughtful way of listening (...) but more than anything a sort of pleasing atmosphere of mind: foggy, autumnal, a mild and welcoming micro-climate that made me feel safe and comfortable in his company.

Donna Tartt

#29. A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

Graham Greene

#30. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

William Butler Yeats

#31. The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it ...

Augustus William Hare

#32. He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention ... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#33. After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

James Boswell

#34. Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll