Thoughts

Famous quotes containing the word thoughts:

“So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)