Quotes About Thought

You will write … if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting.

THE ANTITHESIS OF MATERIAL REALISM is monistic idealism. In this philosophy, consciousness, not matter, is fundamental. Both the world of matter and the world of mental phenomena, such as thought, are determined by consciousness.

One positive thought can change your life, can change the whole world.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

I am an idea without hands.

Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us.

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

Apparently just thinking about Grant Adams and his brothers was enough to conjure a miracle. Of all things, Grant was dying of cancer, and Cheever had a brain cell to think that Grant was the luckiest sonuvabitch Tyson had ever seen.

Memory feeds imagination.

Ella hadn't thought before to question her mother's happiness-but how many of her mottoes and devices had been antidotes to despair.

El pánico es un sentimiento que en más de una ocasión reúne la energía precisa que, por lo común, no llega a infundir la razón.

Se piensa a veces en la muerte. Tal vez se piensa siempre en la muerte y no se cree que pueda ser tan breve, tan simple, tan rotunda.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.

But on what can intelligence sharpen its wits, in a country where the climate is soft and existence made easy? Even here, where necessity calls for intellectual activity, nothing is rarer than a person who thinks.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. Nothing exists except that which is imagined.

Je mets pas mal de choses d'abord sur mon papier ; ensuite j'ajoute la simplicité.

That is what is most lacking in our people," she said, "they do not think.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.