“Cheaters, I thought.”

“Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.”

Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader

“I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

“"I saw you take his kiss!" "'Tis true."
"O, modesty!" "'Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least, I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept."”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

“Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.”

Anne Baxter (1923–1985) American actress

“I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer