Quotes About Thought

Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

For example, the questions that say, Would you prefer... Would you prefer (a) Answer questions about what you do, (b) Answer questions about what you know, (c) Answer questions about what you think? My answer is Depends. But it's not one of the choices. I am having to think in terms of Always, Sometimes, Never.

I like the cursor blinking, the coffee drinking, the sitting thinking.

I remember the day when I finally knew a genuine thought and could follow where it went.

I realized I am self-centered, that I'm used to thinking about me first. But I also realized that you tend to think about you second. It's as though I had permission from you to be less responsible. I'm not saying it's your fault. But you have to learn to take back, grab it when it's offered. Don't fight it. Don't get all tense thinking it's complicated. Just take it, and if you want to be polite, say thank you.

Literature, the ultimate gift for expressing the most subtle aspects of man's thought and feeling, may not survive persecution: first by religion, then by the bourgeoisie, then by Marxism, and now by commercialism. The

On se penetre non par les sensations mais par la pensée, I wonder.

No es de extrañar que yo observe su vida y me dé cuenta de que la mía nunca se parecerá a la de él, porque la mía la retiene el pensamiento.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

Le bonheur n'est pas une chose; c'est une pensée. Ce n'est pas un fait; c'est une invention. Ce n'est pas un état; c'est une action. Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[...] C'est une praxis, disait- Aristote, et point une poiésis.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

L'homme qui se dit heureux et qui pense, celui-là sera appelé vraiment fort.

A mon goût, tout cela est trop écrit, d'un style trop précieux, trop conscient... J'écris toujours mieux et plus aisément ce que je n'ai pas porté trop longtemps en tête ; dès que ma pensée précède ma plume, c'est pour arrêter celle-ci.

Reason cannot operate without imagination.

Is there intelligence without life? Is there mind without communication? Is there language without living? Is there thought without experience?

Father, may the Holy Spirit have full dominion over me: in my home, in my character, in every word of my tongue, in every thought of my heart, in every feeling towards my fellowmen; may the Holy Spirit have entire possession.

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Never forget as you enter your inner sanctuary that your whole relationship with God depends on what you think of sin and of yourself as a redeemed sinner.

Father, let the Holy Spirit have full dominion over me, in my home, in my temper, in every word of my tongue, in every thought of my heart, in every feeling toward my fellow-men. Let the Holy Spirit have entire possession.

faith finds strength, not in the thought of what you will do, but in the changeless faithfulness and love of Christ, who once again helps and assures you that those who wait on Him shall not be ashamed.

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.