#thoughts

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. ↗

— William Congreve

#contradict #may #must #never #speak

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#empty #i #i think #into #my own

You think I'm pretty Without any make-up on You think I'm funny When I tell the puch line wrong I know you get me So I'll let my walls come down, down ↗

— Katy Perry

#makeup #thoughts #funny

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#follow #gold #i #mine #out

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us. ↗

— Richard Cowper

#hands #meet #our #people #shaping

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. ↗

— Jim Davis

#attribute #automatically #back #because #cats

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#causing #complete #conflicting #during #effect

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ↗

— Joe Davis

#highest #humble #retain #study #things

Any human being has private thoughts. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#being #human #human being #private #thoughts