Quotes About Thought

Today all humans are, to a much greater extent than they usually want to admit, European in dress, thought and taste. They may be fiercely anti-European in their rhetoric, but almost everyone on the planet views politics, medicine, war and economics through European eyes, and listens to music written in European modes with words in European languages. Even today's burgeoning Chinese economy, which may soon regain its global primacy, is built on a European model of production and finance.

Cognitive dissonance is often considered a failure of the human psyche. In fact, it is a vital asset. Had people been unable to hold contradictory beliefs and values, it would probably have been impossible to establish and maintain any human culture.

The world of thought, belief and feeling is by definition far more difficult to decipher.

Free association and holistic thought have given way to compartmentalisation and bureaucracy.

they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

When there is both name and reality, We dwell in the realm of things; When there is neither name nor reality, We exist in a vacuity of things. We can speak and can think, But the more we speak, the further off we are. What is not yet born cannot be forbidden, What is already dead cannot be prevented. Death and birth are not distant, It's their principle that cannot be seen.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process."

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

A simple dream, a simple thought, can generate actions to shake the world.

No matter where you are, you are just one thought away from happiness. Forget everything; just think about happiness and everything will change.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to think of happiness and see the beauty around you.

Thought is the most powerful creative energy in this universe.

Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again.

How do we set about not imagining something?

Fiction is a wonderful home for the reach of the mind.

Waardoor ontspoorde het leven? Het begint met een stap. Begint het kwaad met een uitgesproken woord, of de adem voor het woord, of de gedachte voor de adem? Uit Voor altijd vandaag

Great thought, great achievement, and great love have this in common: all involve great risk.

It is impossible to conceive of idea apart from life. Every living thing has an idea of life, and every idea must have a living thing in which to arise.

The greatest writers have no purpose but to incite in the minds of each reader the highest and best thought of which they are capable.

Adakalanya kesendirian menjadi hadiah ulang tahun yang terbaik. Keheningan menghadirkan pemikiran yang bergerak ke dalam, menembus rahasia terciptanya waktu

To think is to practice brain chemistry.