Thoughts

Famous quotes containing the word thoughts:

“Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“Stop up your mouth like a bottle; guard your thoughts like a fort.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Little-minded people’s thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes’ conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)