Top 40 Thoughtful Thoughts Quotes
#1. Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.
Bryant McGill
#2. 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
#3. Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.
Mason Cooley
#5. For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
Diane Ackerman
#7. Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool ...
Jonathan Swift
#9. [T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.
Wilfrid Sellars
#10. In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. 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
#12. Most thoughts are only profiles of thoughts. They must be inverted and synthesized with their antipodes. Thus many philosophical writings become very interesting which would not have been so otherwise.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#13. And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain ...
Dylan Thomas
#14. Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.
Nina Guilbeau
#15. Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.
Stephen Richards
#16. Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#17. A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
my thoughts are spent
as the black seeds.
Hilda Doolittle
#18. A writer needs solitude : moments that he can spend in introspection and in reflection. These moments make him pensive and thoughtful and help him write his thoughts with clarity. A life of devotion to one's passion gives us meaning to our life.
Avijeet Das
#19. Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
Marcel Proust
#20. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt
#21. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
Henry David Thoreau
#22. My brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion.
William Wordsworth
#23. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.
Moryah DeMott
#25. The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.
Akash Lakhotia
#26. Money has the power to get, all that you want.
Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.
Akash Lakhotia
#27. Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings
Isaac Watts
#28. Time in the most powerful thing.
Not money, not power, not hope.
A person can have everything they
desire but without time they are,
all useless.
Akash Lakhotia
#29. For what is writing besides capturing thoughts that belong to all of us, so that we can recognize ourselves, undestand ourselves, and perhaps, each other. Every thoughtful book about love makes us better lovers, I think. It opens the gates of perception.
Janet Fitch
#31. 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
#32. You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena
David Gallie
#33. The shoreline of my thoughts disappeared as I drifted upon an open ocean of reflection.
Mike Ericksen
#34. Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.
Aisha Mirza
#35. Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
Zeno Vendler
#36. Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
Michel De Montaigne
#38. Thoughts are the shorebirds scurrying back and forth just beyond the edge of oncoming wave.
Tom Gillaspy
#39. Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.
John Manning
#40. Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk.
Akash Lakhotia
