Quotes About Thought

privately Galileo thought the condemnation of Copernicus was wrong. "The Bible tells us how to go to Heaven," he once quipped, "not how the heavens go.

As a member and then director of the Lyceum, Strato made two crucial decisions for the future of Western thought. The first was to insist that scientific research had to be free from any restraints by theology

Locke's natural liberty includes liberty of thought, since reason is another of God's gifts, including our thoughts about religion. This made Locke the first great advocate of religious toleration

If, indeed, there be any one circle of thought distinctly and palpably marked out from amid the jarring and tumultuous chaos of human intelligence, it is that evergreen and radiant Paradise which the true poet knows, and knows alone, as the limited realm of his authority—as the circumscribed Eden of his dreams.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.

His school-fellows thought him quite mad, and tolerated him, and indeed were very kind to him in their barbarous manner.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

This lofty thought proves I dreamt it!

It is wrong to say: I think. One should say: I am thought.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

The epithet "revolutionary" is usually reserved for two great modern developments – the Relativity Theory and the Quantum Theory. These are not merely new discoveries as to the content of the world; they involve changes in our mode of thought about the world.

There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or deed destroys itself. It becomes a flock of sheep that will get their throats cut by the first person to come along. The same thing happens to men.

Con tanta normalidad, quiero decir. Siempre pensé que iba acompañado de pasiones o arrebatos. Lo de antes fue un acto casi burocrático.

depending upon one's profession, thinking is not always the most comfortable of pastimes.

Sarebbe stato più sopportabile, indubbiamente, se invece dell'amara lucidità che impregnava ogni sua azione e pensiero, il capitano Alatriste avesse goduto dei doni magnifici della stupidità, del fanatismo o della cattiveria. Perché solo gli stupidi, i fanatici e le canaglie vivono senza fantasmi, o senza rimorsi.

No es lo mismo desvestir santos que vestirlos. Manejar ideas que afrontar hechos...

He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.

These 32 paths are said to be paths of Wisdom (Chakhmah). In a Kabbalistic sense, Wisdom is seen as pure, undifferentiated Mind.20 It is pure thought, which has not yet been broken up into differentiated ideas. Wisdom is the level above all division, where everything is a simple unity.

Therefore, when the thought of compassion is impure, one should not sacrifice one's life, but it should be sacrificed when one's thought is unbiased. Thus, life must not be wasted.18