Quotes About Thought

I need to sleep, he thought wearily. But not to dream.

Great, thought Holly. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

I should take a photo, thought Squib, and pulled his smartphone from the waterproof pocket of his camouflage-type work jeans. And as is so often the case, things would've turned out a whole lot better if the kid could've kept it in his pants.

The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind.

greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements.

Dumnezeu e zgarcit. -Sa zicem ca face economie. Ii cunoaste bine pe oameni, de vreme ce el i-a facut. Stie ca cei mai multi nu gandesc, ci se multumesc sa mearga cu turma. Din pricina ca nu cugeta, rumega si tot rumega. Turma e guvernata de instinctul gregar.

The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement, not only with others but also with ourselves.

Inside every pause lived a contemplation

People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people are the ones more regularly afflicted by mania is beyond question.

E?er zeki olmak insan?n bir konudaki fikrinin de?i?ebilmesiyse, o gece ben bunu kan?tlam??t?m.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of thought; now they have become rationalizations for relativism and uncertainty.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.

La raison découle du mélange de la pensée rationnelle et des sentiments. Si les deux fonctions se dissocient, la pensée se détériore en activité intellectuelle schizoïde et les sentiments en passions névrotiques autodestructrices.

The mind has the ability to influence the body on a subconscious level.

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

C'est aux sultans et aux cadis qu'il faut parler avec des circonlocutions. Pas au Créateur. Dieu est grand, II n'a que faire de nos petits airs et de nos petites courbettes. II m'a fait pensant, alors je pense, et je Lui livre sans dissimulation le fruit de ma pensée.

Les habitants de la terre se divisent en deux, Ceux qui ont un cerveau, mais pas de religion, Et ceux qui ont une religion, mais pas de cerveau.