Quotes About Thought

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Creativity is not [where you create] some new thing that's emerged from your brain," Nathan told me. "It's a new association between two things that were already there." Mind-wandering allows "more extended trains of thought to unfold, which allows for more associations to be made.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

Though the ear choose not to hear, In the heart I echo,clear: Always found, and never sought, Praised, as well as cursed, in thought.

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The principal fact of life is the free mind.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.