Quotes About Thought

One needs not to change the system; however, only to change, narrow, and traditionally selected Thought; consequently, it can destine a beautiful and merciful miracle for the social life and system.

One's thought that wears the word of dictionaries, and surpasses its context, becomes a vision, which understands a few figures that carry a visionary quality and proficiency.

The dream is the pregnancy of thought in mind, and the birth of that shapes the reality; otherwise, the mind becomes its own grave.

The thought is the way and the source of knowledge, not the language.

They simply had to fill this terrifying emptiness–otherwise, their brains might start working. Thinking is painful business.

and in the wedge of light from the hallway she thought she saw something flicker

The law of karma states unequivocally that though we cannot see the connections, we can be sure that everything that happens to us, good and bad, originated once in something we did or thought. We ourselves are responsible for what happens to us, whether or not we can understand how. It follows that we can change what happens to us by changing ourselves; we can take our destiny into our own hands.

springs from their own imaginations.

No man is blest who does not think it so.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

Io - dopo tanta fatica - non so pensare. Nemmeno Mariarosa sa: ha letto pagine e pagine e le ricombina con estro, dando spettacolo. Tutto qui. Lila invece sa. E' la sua natura. Se avesse studiato, avrebbe saputo pensare a questo modo.

A language is a compendium of the history, geography, material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it through the centuries. The words, the grammar, the syntax are a chisel that shapes our thought.

The struggle is due to the fact that the present — the entire present — even that of the "I" who writes, letter by letter — can't maintain with clarity the thought-vision, which always comes before, is always the past, and therefore tends to be blotted out.

What unknown abilities had filled this void? Was the world somehow brighter, more tangible, without the nagging interference of language? Was the absence of words actually a form of freedom? I've often tried to quiet that constant voice in my mind, to try to experience the world the way they might—but always the questions rush in faster than I can carve out a moment of true silence.

knew I thought differently in Turkish and in English—not because thought and language were the same, but because different languages forced you to think about different things. Turkish

One must always be thinking," Isabel told Ralph. "I am not sure it's not a greater happiness to be powerless." And Ralph replied: "For weak people I have no doubt it's a greater happiness.'' It was a confirmation of my own idea of strength—of my determination to be strong.

My mother said that that had been wrong. She said that children were people, whose dignity and privacy were worthy of respect. She was the only person I had ever met or heard of who thought or said anything like that.

A joke is a question of mind over manner.

There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.