Quotes About Thought

This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. Pull open, Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, He never remembers. It's so weird.

More and more often these days days, though, Holly found herself thinking that perhaps what God wanted was not to be feared or obeyed or even to be worshiped - but maybe God just wanted to be wondered about.

down a pair of rain boots, she thought, but I'm definitely up in friends.

Something like a little faucet, I think.

Lo que pasa es que rara vez pienso; entonces sin darme cuenta, se acumula en mí una multitud de pequeñas metamorfosis, y un buen día se produce una verdadera revolución. Es lo que ha dado a mi vida este aspecto desconcertante, incoherente.

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation prizes is the world.

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...

It was clear that the man was no fool. But what was the use of not being a fool if you acted like this?

Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick.

told him a lot, right then and there. What? Well, for instance, that chaos doesn't run the whole show. That this is not a sick and hasty ride, helpless, through a dream into oblivion. No, sir! It can be arrested by a thing or two. By art, for instance. The speed is checked, the time is redivided. Measure! That great thought. Mystery! The voices of angels!

Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.

But can thought wake you from the dream of existence? Not if it becomes a second realm of confusion, another more complicated dream, the dream of intellect, the delusion of total explanations.

Tako sve ide kao i prije: jedni mnogo misle a ništa ne u?ine, a drugi o?ito ne misle ništa dok sve to rade.

world. Something practical was done with thought. The mental became also the real. Relief from the pursuit of absolutes made life pleasant. Only a small class of fanatical intellectuals, professionals, still chased after these absolutes.

Routine kills creative thought.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought, that tendency of mind which the ministry that appoints to the professorships regards as consistent with its views.

the past exists only in your mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your mind because it has not happened.

Confirmation bias isn't an occasional bug in our human operating system. It is the operating system.

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

I took a rant-sized breath.