Quotes About Thought

The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

The solution is a form of retreat inside ourselves, to the past, to more concentrated forms of thought and action. As Schopenhauer wrote, "Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

About the only thing that constant human contact cannot facilitate is thought. The weight of society's pressure to conform, and the lack of distance from other people, can make it impossible to think clearly about what is going on around you.

Like everyone, you think you are rational, but you are not. Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice.

From now on you need never await temporal attestation to your thought. You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to converting your experiences to the highest advantage of others.

How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?

As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.

No son espadas ni fuerza muscular lo que necesitamos ahora —discrepó Nynaeve—, sino inteligencia. Los hombres suelen pensar con el pelo que tienen en el pecho. —Se tocó el pecho con aire ausente, como si palpara algo debajo de la chaqueta—. La mayoría de ellos lo hacen.

It would be easier if this was a story, he thought. In

popped into his head then, one he did not want to ask, one

Think, if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given. The price is paid.' "A

But reflection without action is ultimately as unproductive as action without reflection.

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In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.

Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all.

The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself

You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge.

It's all right," Phaedrus said. "We just accidentally stumbled over a genuine question, and the shock is hard to recover from.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.