Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts.
—René Descartes
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
—René Descartes
I have a Savior; though I sought
Through earth and air and sea,
I could not find a word, a thought,
To show Him worthily.
But planted here in rock and moss
I see the Sign of utmost loss;
I hear a word—On Calvary’s Cross
Love gave Himself for thee.
—Amy Carmichael
“Let the morning break with thoughts of Christ, and let your last thought at night be sweetened with his presence.”
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
—Blaise Pascal
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
—George Orwell
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
—Heraclitus
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.
I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
—Carl Jung
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.
I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
—Carl Jung
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.
—John Owen
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thoughts weaken the mind.
—Laozi
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
—Voltaire
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
—Voltaire
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
—Heraclitus
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
—Voltaire
The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor’s hand can break the spell to free the figures.
—Michelangelo
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
—Oscar Wilde
A cardinal doctrine of modern liberalism is that the world’s evil may be overcome by the world’s good; no help is thought to be needed from outside the world.
—J. Gresham Machen
Rule your thoughts if you want to reach your goal.
—Leo Tolstoy
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.
—Heraclitus
“No subject will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin