Quotes About Thought

Orthodoxy is a dam that is built by persons who think they have reached the ultimate in human thought, and that there will never be anything as good. They are finding that it is easier to become interested in the dam than in the great current that it is holding back. These

The Warrior traditions all affirm that, in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death.

the implications of the amazing new fact of nature called nonlocality cannot be properly understood without some familiarity with the actual history of scientific thought.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

had lost himself in his true home: the beautiful, and infinitely consoling, realm of thought alone.

Were they merely mortal remains? she thought, as the air cleared and a billowy white cloud momentarily obscured the sunbeams. Was that all she'd let go, or had she, as her father promised, allowed a falcon to take flight?

He and his young colleague, the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel, had an understanding: they knew that either one of them might be so deeply absorbed in thought that any disturbance could prove fatal to whatever work was being done, and if there was no immediate response to an interruption—such as a knock—then it was best to retire quietly until another time.

Thought can be controlled and manipulated, but emotion is willful and unpredictable.

Money is an idea that is more clearly seen with your mind.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." ? Karl Marx

the conscious self doesn't create thoughts; it receives them.

But even Wagner, with his magnificent music and his rather less worthy pseudo-medieval words, is never wholly successful. Why? Because a work of art must be in some measure coherent; but thought and feeling mingled, as all of us experience them, are surging and incoherent. Thought and feeling trimmed into coherence in a work of art are still far from reality, still far from the agonizing confusion that rises like miasma in what a great poet has called the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Most men would rather die than think

mind cannot tell the difference between an image that we envision and one that is real. So this little technique actually fools it into thinking we are taking this quick break from our daily routines

You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality.

You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind.

joriki, que significa "mente concentrada".

sow a thought, reap an action, sow an action, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny!