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The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Attitude is your thought life turned inside out
- Joyce Meyer
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
- Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Aristotle
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
- Rutherford B. Hayes
She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world's first love.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The pure in heart shall see God, because they always do His will. Purity does not begin in the body but in the will. From there it flows outward, cleansing thought, imagination, and, finally, the body. Bodily purity is a repercussion or echo of the will. Life is impure only when the will is impure.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There would be a course on the philosophy of history; another year the philosophy of Marxism, another the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of science, etc. All of these were presented in the light of the thought of St. Thomas.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
- St. Basil