Quotes About Thought

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

If your life is worth thinking about,it is worth writing about.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

I had found that universities were no different from any other large organisation; the same timid conformity, the same stifling bureaucracy, was equally present in those supposed temples of creative thought and free expression as in the most faceless corporation.

The ability of humans to speak a modern language and the evolution of our ability to think about ourselves thinking about ourselves thus appear to parallel each other.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

La noia è pensiero in germe

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Her thought drew being from the obscure borderland. She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. It is necessary to prepare for an examination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method or fail.

It is like you to have thought of such a beautiful thing." Not a thing, only an ending," said Helen rather sadly; and the sense of tragedy closed in on Margaret again as soon as she left the house.

He did not know that he talked a good deal of nonsense, and that the sheer force of his intellect was weakened by the sight of Monteriano, and by the thought of dentistry within those walls.

For a moment the visible world faded away, and memories and emotions alone seemed real.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.

Everything begins with an idea.