Quotes about Thoughts

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occasionally they were fantastic and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts which possessed him

Hence much reading deprives the mind of all elasticity, as a weight continually pressing upon it does a spring, and the most certain means of never having any original thoughts is to take a book in hand at once, at every spare moment. This practice is the reason why scholarship makes most men more unintelligent and stupid than they are by nature, and deprives their writings of all success; they are, as Pope says— 'For ever reading, never to be read'.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

But I do know that if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts. Because if you keep on thinking what you have been thinking you'll keep on getting what you have been getting.

if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts.